The Starz version apparently features more nudity and sex and, of course, Americans are not as well-versed in that plague of British schoolchildren, the Wars of the Roses, on which “The White Queen” is based. There was, however, the feeling that the Americans might like it better. Critics objected especially to a few glaring anachronisms - no zippers in the 15th century, nor tourist-friendly castle handrails - and a general lack of the slop-pots-’n’-rotten-teeth realism that has marked period dramas ever since HBO’s “John Adams” showcased the horror of early smallpox vaccines. “The White Queen,” a co-production of the BBC and Starz, debuted in Britain this summer to mostly scathing reviews.
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