King Henry VIII (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) seems to have a good life now with his new wife Jane Seymour (not the actress) who will have his son.   During the times when he reigned, he now has to contend with an uprising against the religious reforms (the Pilgrimage of Grace) that he let Cormwell push through that results in the seizure of religious lands (churches) and destruction of religious art.  Season three is a trying time for Henry VIII as he loses someone and goes into a dark depression only to be forced into an unhappy marriage by Cromwell.

I enjoyed season three of THE TUDORS.  Just my problems with this season are that the female characters aren't as strong as Catherine or Anne Boleyn.  Ann of Cleaves is a snooze.  Cromwell is made sympathetic too late into the show for me to care about him.  Again Cromwell wasn't a compelling character like Wolsey or Anne Boleyn's father.   Jonathan Rhys Meyers does carry the season more this time around and new characters like  Sir Francie Bryan help make the season still somewhat good.  It still isn't up to the high standards of the first two seasons.