Isabel
- TV Series
- 2011–2014
The life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic.The life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic.The life of Isabella I of Castile, also known as Isabella the Catholic.
- Awards
- 31 wins & 39 nominations
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- TriviaBefore Javier Olivares joined, the project had little historical accuracy and gave more importance to romance. Gonzalo de Córdoba had an unhistorical sexual relationship with Isabel before her marriage, and the first season ended with her wedding to Fernando in 1469. Olivares pushed for more politics, gave more importance to the character of Isabel's mentor, Gonzalo Chacón, and set the finale in 1474, with Isabel's coronation.
- GoofsThough set in the late 15th century, ruling monarchs are given the treatment "Majesty" through the series. No monarch, in Spain or elsewhere, received this treatment before 1517, when it was invented by Charles V upon his election as Holy Roman Emperor (Charles had already been treated as "Royal Highness" as King in Spain and though that he deserved something that ranked above that once he was Emperor; other monarchs adopted the treatment for themselves later).
- ConnectionsFollowed by Charles, Emperor King (2015)
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There was a time when European networks produced excellent TV series based on historical events, literary works or on the lives of relevant historical characters. Budgetary restrictions gradually did away with that type of programming and productions nearly halted. TVE themselves produced a few remarkable ones and so did the BBC and RAI, the latter before turning into the generally appalling network it now is. With this new series centred on the life of Queen Isabella of Spain and now well into its third and final season, TVE has more or less come back to what they so successfully did until a couple of decades back. Actors are of a good enough standard and the recreation of some of the Kingdoms that comprised the Iberian peninsula at the time is in general to a good standard. There is some abuse, in my view, of computer-generated images and sequences that are distractive and in a few instances questionable in their success but the series as a whole deserves wider distribution (PBS take note?). The Alhambra sequences in Seasons 2 and 3 are a delight to watch.
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