10 thoughts on “Firebrand (2023)

  1. I’m excited to see this especially with the costuming being on point! Catherine Parr is a great aunt of mine so it’s especially going to be fun to see this!

  2. This looks great, can’t wait to see it. I didn’t enjoy the book very much. The plot was good but there were some… interesting choices being made and the characters were very two dimensional. But I’m hoping that the film will have more depth and the costumes look fantastic.

    1. The film also makes … interesting choices. Not bad per se, but definitely playing fast & loose w/history. The characters & performances are strong tho.

      1. That’s encouraging! Becoming Elizabeth’ s version of Catherine Parr was just an awful, idiotic Shrew, all to make Thomas/Elizabeth’s “betrayal” seem more understandable?! FU Becoming Elizabeth! The potrayal of Princess Mary makes it worth it!

        1. Becoming Eliz really irritated me! So yeah, Firebrand’s Katherine was better, & there wasn’t any big romance between her & Seymour either. They were friends & confidants, but that’s all, whew.

  3. Having just come out of this movie, I wish the story were as good as the costumes. What really makes me mad about it, is that they do the disclaimer in the opening about how “history only remembers men and war, everything else is blank space” to justify the playing fast and loose with history when that is categorically NOT the case. We KNOW the major beats of Parr’s life with Henry, and they could have been a solid movie on their own. Instead, it really feels like they were trying to make her Anne Boleyn 2.0 rather than let her be Catherine Parr. I have no idea the book is like this, but I’m now disinclined to read it based on how the movie turned out.

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