History YMMV / Six

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation, or even sobbing, as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken… [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath.]] At least once, Aimie Atkinson has ended the song with a loud gasp of shock and pain, then freezing with her head tilted back, [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence simultaneously bringing to mind sexual activity and Katherine's death by beheading.]] This is made worse by the real Katherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Dereham had raped her - she got executed for something that was ''[[AdaptationalConsent not her fault]].'' "Don't care if you don't please me," takes on a darker bent.

* HoYay: Anne of Cleves is a fountain of this. In "Get Down" alone, she refers to the queens as her "bitches", calls an audience member "gorgeous/handsome", and asks another audience member to get up and dance with her.

** Whenever one of the swings plays all six roles is called making "Swingo," usually accompanied with a megasix compilation where they sing all the parts.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does Katherine Howard put up a front of being a strategic seductress to suppress the trauma of a lifetime of sexual abuse?

--> '''Anne Boleyn:''' OH MY GOD GUYS, NO, SERIOUSLY, HE’S ACTUALLY GONNA CHOP MY HEAD OFF! [{{Beat}}] [[VerbalBackPedaling Eh, I mean,]] I guess he must've really liked my ''[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything head]].'' [[MirthlessLaughter He-He.]]

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation, or even sobbing, as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken… [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath.]] At least once, Aimie Atkinson has ended the song with a loud gasp of shock and pain, then freezing with her head tilted back, [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence simultaneously bringing to mind sexual activity and Katherine's death by beheading.]]
** This is made worse by the real Katherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Dereham had raped her - she got executed for something that was ''[[AdaptationalConsent not her fault]].'' "Don't care if you don't please me," takes on a darker bent.

** This is made worse by the real Katherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Culpeper had raped her - she got executed for something that was ''[[AdaptationalConsent not her fault]].'' "Don't care if you don't please me," takes on a darker bent.

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation, or even sobbing, as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken… [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]] At least once, Aimie Atkinson has ended the song with a loud gasp of shock and pain, then freezing with her head tilted back, [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence simultaneously bringing to mind sexual activity and Katherine's death by beheading.]]

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation, or even sobbing, as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken… [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]]

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken... [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]] This is made worse by the real Catherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Culpeper had raped her - she got executed for something that was ''[[AdaptationalConsent not her fault]].'' "Don't care if you don't please me," takes on a darker bent.

* FandomBersekButton: DO NOT compare "Six" to "Theater/{{Hamilton}}" if you value your life or your fandom reputation. The phrase "A British Hamilton" especially pisses fans off.

** Bear. At the beginning of season one he is about to become a father. Flash forward a few years and we learn that his daughter Sarah died when she was only a few months old, and he and his wife are having difficulty conceiving another child. [[spoiler:And to make things even worse for him, Bear's wife leaves him at the end of season one. Then she gets shot by Chloe and dies at the end of season 2 right when he has decided to try and make up with her.]]
* SecondSeasonDownfall: Viewer reaction to Season 2 was much more negative compared to the first and it definitely showed in the ratings, where S2 lost almost exactly half its viewership. A number of commonly cited factors are killing off Rip and relegating him to a freaking ''SpiritAdvisor'' of all things to a shell-shocked Bear, the casting of Creator/OliviaMunn [[WTHCastingAgency as a hardened CIA interrogator]] who is presented as [[CharacterShilling the one everyone should listen to because she knows what she's doing]], the ramping up of the [=SEALs'=] family drama UpToEleven, and introducing new teammates who are just plain unlikable [[{{Jerkass}} jerks]] like Trevor and Chase. All in all, it is no surprise the show got axed.

** For that matter, does Anne Boleyn put up a front of being a carefree ditz to suppress trauma from her own abuse? Note that in live performances she actually cuts off the song to legitimately panic about her impending beheading, before quickly backpedaling with a joke.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The entirety of "Haus of Holbein." It's not centered around a particular Queen.
* FanPreferredCouple: Anne of Cleves is often shipped with Katherine Howard for a variety of reasons -- they actually knew each other in real life (and by most accounts got along), and their original actresses are dating. A lot of Katherine's fans (i.e., nearly everyone in the fandom) are also in favor of it because "[[TheWoobie Katherine]] deserves to be happy!" As a nice little bonus, Anne of Cleves never remarried after her divorce. Heck, even the writers of the show originally wanted to have them get together!

** The final verse of "No Way," in which Catherine of Aragon [[SincerityMode sincerely]] tells Henry that if he truly has a good reason for divorcing her, if she's really caused him any pain, she'll accept the annulment and leave with no further hassle. She just wants him to explain a single thing she's done wrong. But, of course, Henry ''doesn't'' have a good reason, which just pisses Catherine off even further.]
** Anne Boleyn's refrain of "what was I meant to do?" starts out cheeky and then grows desperate and terrified, especially combined with the part in the live shows where Anne stops singing for a couple seconds to panic over her impending execution.
** "Heart of Stone," in which Jane Seymour, "the only one he truly loved," makes it clear she is ''well'' aware that Henry's love for her would likely evaporate if anything happened to their son. And, tragically, it did, though Jane as well as Henry were long dead by the time Edward passed away at the age of fifteen.

* EarWorm: ''EVERY. SINGLE. SONG.''
** "You must think that I'm crazy. You wanna replace me? Baby, there's no-no-no-no-no-no-''no way''."
** "Sorry, not sorry 'bout what I said, I'm just tryin' to have some fun…"
** "I'm the queen of the castle. Get down, you dirty rascal!" Even more so because the tune is taken from a popular playground song.
** "We're one of a kind, no category, too many years lost in history..."

** The final verse of "No Way," in which Catherine of Aragon [[SincerityMode sincerely]] tells Henry that if he truly has a good reason for divorcing her, if she's really caused him any pain, she'll accept the annulment and leave with no further hassle. She just wants him to explain a single thing she's done wrong. But, of course, Henry ''doesn't'' have a good reason, which just pisses Catherine off even further.

* HarsherInHindsight: "I Don't Need Your Love" seems like a sweet song from Catherine Parr to the man she loves to tell him she has to marry the King, and when you find out she later gets to marry him you're supposed to be happy for her. The song and its message become a lot less cute when you realize Tom Seymour (who was Jane's brother and Parr's fourth husband) was at best inappropriate with the then 14-year-old Elizabeth Tudor and that Parr joined in on these inappropriate interactions for a while before sending Elizabeth away.

** It can also impact the way you see Parr, Howard, and Boleyn's interactions, as what happened to Katherine Howard with Mannox and Dereham might end up happening to her cousin Elizabeth with Tom Seymour with Parr being at best naively unaware.

* FanPreferredCouple: Anne of Cleves is often shipped with Katherine Howard for a variety of reasons -- they actually knew each other in real life (and by most accounts got along), and their original actresses are dating. A lot of Katherine's fans (i.e., nearly everyone in the fandom) are also in favor of it because "[[TheWoobie Katherine]] deserves to be happy!" As a nice little bonus, Anne of Cleves never remarried after her divorce. Heck, even the writers of the show originally wanted to have them get together!
* GeniusBonus: Katherine Howard mentions Thomas Cromwell - he was the chief minister responsible for engineering the annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's marriage, and was beheaded because his attempt to make a Queen out of Anne of Cleves didn't go so well. Katherine was the next queen after Anne.

* GeniusBonus: Thomas Cromwell is mentioned - he was the chief minister responsible for engineering the annulment of Catherine of Aragon and Henry VIII's marriage, and was beheaded because his attempt to make a Queen out of Anna of Cleves didn't go so well.

** Catherine of Aragon talks about moving to a nunnery, how she wouldn't look good in a wimple, and her happy ending in "Six" was joining a convent and their gospel choir. Adrianne Hicks, her actress in the Chicago production, understudied Delores for the German-language production of ''Theatre/SisterAct''.

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken... [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]] This is made worse by the real Catherine's steadfast insistence, up until her death, that Culpeper had raped her - she got executed for something that was [[AdaptationalConsent ''not her fault'']]. "Don't care if you don't please me," takes on a darker bent.

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as at this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken... [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]]

** "I'm the queen of the castle. Get down, you dirty rascal!" Even more so because the tune is taken from a popular playground song; you've almost certainly heard it at some point growing up.

* HollywoodHomely: In the grand tradition of Tudor-focused media, the actresses playing the allegedly-ugly Anne of Cleves have all been lovely. The show makes no effort to pretend otherwise, and a couple lines in "Get Down" are devoted to snarking at this. (Of course, given that Henry was probably looking for an excuse to divorce her, and a couple of his contemporaries said that Anne was actually quite pretty, so it ''might'' be justified.) The line “You said that I tricked you ‘cuz I didn’t look like my profile picture. Too bad I don’t agree— so I’m gonna hang it up for everyone to see, and you can’t stop me,” might be imply that the portrait was more accurate than Henry claimed and that Anne of Cleves is aware of and proving that.
** There are serious reasons to believe the portrait was actually accurate - Hans Holbein was known for his precision when it came to his portraits, since he didn't flatter his subjects in them, which makes Henry's claims that he was tricked by the portrait very filmsy - especially that there is ''absolutely no record'' that Henry blamed Holbein for giving an inaccurate portrait, and knowing Henry, one would think something would have happened to Holbein if it was the case...

* {{Tearjerker}}:

** "All You Wanna Do", the chronicles of Katherine Howard's extensive experiences of being sexually abused. By the end, she's screaming her lines in anger and desperation as the audiences squirm in discomfort. It shows plainly how desperate she is to please the men around her, for them to "tell [her she's] the fairest of the fair". Her exhale at the very end of the song is tired and resigned, as this point she's finally given up on finding love, and is broken... [[FridgeHorror Or it's her last breath after her beheading.]]