The Black Queen (and this is not Catherine Medici!) The series itself delayed only in the third series for real: the experiences of the main character make her sympathize, and the ongoing injustice takes the viewer out of himself. But the first two series... Just a set of historical facts, known to all, but poorly glued together in the series. I have already watched “Wolf Hall”, “Tudors”, and “A Thousand Days of Anna” – everywhere the creators tried to paint the plot with their flowers, to emphasize the aspects of the personality of Anna Boleyn they needed. But then they decided to repaint a number of the main characters, which looks tragicomic. And not because of the race of this or that character, but because of their family ties: black Anne Boley has a black brother (George Boleyn), but her daughter and their uncle are both light white in color, and a cousin and a lady-in-waiting is Latina, whose mother looks just like a typical European, and Chinese. Characters do not have genes, but olive or vinaigrette.
Henry VIII is a separate meme: one daughter was born, apparently, from a Vietnamese woman who came from Aragon, and the second from an Ethiopian; the series is supposedly about the exotic tastes of the king in bed, and not about the Reformation in England or the rights of women.
The last theme has recently been raised in Western cinema: you just need to focus on male cruelty and force male characters to do abominations. I don't know about the others, but I don't have to be poked around the table and say, "Men are so cruel!" to see a strong woman. Our creators of “Ekaterina” and so coped with it, just showing these strongest women.
Someone wrote that Anna's skin color was changed to show her vulnerable position at court, since the religious and political differences of the time are not so obvious to the audience. However, (1) there are a number of non-European characters and Anna and George do not stand out against the general background, and (2) other films/series successfully introduced viewers to the course of England in the 1530s without changing anyone's skin color, which in the historical series is generally a crime.
I shoot 4 stars for the above-mentioned boredom and tolerance not to the place that completely breaks the historical canon.