Becoming Elizabeth
Becoming Elizabeth Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.2 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.7 |
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About
"Palace intrigue before the crown, rawer than expected"
This drama picks up right after Henry VIII's death, when teenage Elizabeth Tudor is a vulnerable pawn in a court seething with ambition, faith wars, and sexual intrigue. It follows her uneasy place in a household run by manipulative adults, long before she is queen. The tone is tense and slow-burning rather than action-driven, leaning on political maneuvering, whispered alliances, and simmering danger. It rewards patience with atmosphere and performance over spectacle, feeling more like a chamber piece of power and survival than a grand historical epic.
the tense, slow-building portrait of a future queen learning to survive court manipulation.
you want fast plotting rather than simmering, dialogue-heavy political maneuvering.
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All Seasons
| Ep | Title | Rating | Yours | Votes | Runtime | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ▶ | 1 | Keep Your Knife Bright | 7.2 | 283 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 2 | You Cannot Keep the Birds from Flying Over Your Head | 7.2 | 204 | 55 min | |
| ▶ | 3 | Either Learn or Be Silent | 7.3 | 196 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 4 | Lighten Our Darkness | 7.5 | 186 | 58 min | |
| ▶ | 5 | Necessity Compels Me to Plague You | 7.4 | 155 | 51 min | |
| ▶ | 6 | What Cannot Be Cured | 7.7 | 156 | 59 min | |
| ▶ | 7 | To Laugh, to Lie, to Flatter, to Face | 7.5 | 139 | 54 min | |
| ▶ | 8 | To Death We Must Stoop | 7.7 | 151 | 57 min |