Category: Review
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode 3 Review – Defiance
– Henry’s Love is a Dangerous Thing – by Lousia Mellor | Den of Geek | November 24, 2024 Henry’s love is a dangerous thing. The protection it brings is equalled only by the threat that comes with its removal. Wolsey learned that. So did Anne Boleyn. Jane Seymour was beginning to learn it before pregnancy…
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Review: BBC’s Wolf Hall, Filmed in Wells, Somerset
– A Royal Performance of Confined Aggression – by Harry Mockridge | Somerset County Gazette | November 22, 2024 Four and Half Stars out of Five A NEW series has been released on BBC – but is it any good? Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light is now available to watch on BBC iPlayer and gives viewers…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode 2 Review – Obedience
– Wriggling Free of Henry’s Noose – by Lousia Mellor | Den of Geek | November 17, 2024 If only Hilary Mantel had lived 10 lifetimes, she might have rehabilitated 10 other historical figures as skillfully as she did Thomas Cromwell. Mantel overwrote history’s shorthand for Cromwell, transforming him from a venal brute into a flesh-and-blood man…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light Review – Cromwell’s So Menacing
– Masterstroke in a Magnificent Drama – by Christopher Stevens | Daily Mail | November 10, 2024 Five out of Five Stars Courtiers who should be telling him, ‘With these Ferrero Rocher chocolate balls, you are spoiling us!’ are instead issuing veiled death threats. Diplomat Eustace Chapuys is a crucial figure, because it is his…
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The Mirror and the Light is Glorious
– Blood Has Been Spilled – by Rachael Sigee | iNews | November 10, 2024 Five out of Five Stars This adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s final novel does justice to her ingenious ability to draw out nuance of Tudor politics. It was something of a miracle when, back in 2015, Mark Rylance submerged us in…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode 1 Review – Wreckage
– Head in Lion’s Mouth – by Louisa Mellor | Den of Geek | November 10, 2024 After almost a decade, hooray for the BBC returning to the perilous political world of Thomas Cromwell. Peter Straughan and Peter Kosminsky’s exquisite, careful adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy is finally back after almost a decade after…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Review – Six Hours of Utter TV Magic
– More Man, Less Monolith – by Lucy Mangan | The Guardian | November 10, 2024 Five out of Five Stars The final instalment of Hilary Mantel’s masterpiece is the most intricate television you are ever likely to see. It is so beautifully made it’s breathtaking. It seems pleasingly apropos that it is almost impossible…
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Wolf Hall Season 2 Review: End of Tudor Saga Proves to be Well Worth the Wait
– Prestige TV and Machiavellian Masterpiece – by Jon O’Brien | Radio Times | November 10, 2024 Four out of Five Stars The first season of Wolf Hall, which debuted in 2015, appeared to foreshadow all the political upheaval that’s occurred in the subsequent nine years: a monumental fallout with Europe, the unstoppable rise to power of…