Season 1: Becoming Elizabeth -

: Creator Anya Reiss aimed to capture Elizabeth's "tumultuous" journey through an ensemble cast, highlighting the messy reality of royal succession and Protestant-Catholic tensions.

The STARZ series Becoming Elizabeth (2022) focuses on the volatile adolescent years of the future Queen Elizabeth I following the death of King Henry VIII. Becoming Elizabeth - Season 1

: Some reviewers, like those at IndieWire , praised it as a "searing examination of the politics of the time," while Common Sense Media felt it leaned more toward "soapy melodrama". : Creator Anya Reiss aimed to capture Elizabeth's