Category: Review
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How Hilary Mantel’s Genius Shaped Wolf Hall After Her Death
– Most Riveting and Richly Textured Drama – by Johanna Thomas-Corr | The Times | November 10, 2024 The director Peter Kosminsky reveals how his detailed email exchanges with the author were a goldmine when making the BBC drama The Mirror and the Light. When Hilary Mantel was writing The Mirror and the Light, the final…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light – The Titanic Tudor Drama is the Best TV You’ll See All Year
– Damian’s Henry is Outstanding – by Joel Golby | The Guardian | November 9, 2024 The cast are so incredible that even the bit parts feel like stars of the future. Peter Kosminsky’s rich, clever adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels needs to be plunged into without distraction. It has been nine years since the…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Review – Return of Riveting Drama Worth the 10-Year Wait
– Shadow of the Axeman – by Pat Stacey | Irish Independent | November 7, 2024 Five out of Five Stars The second instalment of the TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s famous book returns to BBC1 on Sunday, November 10 and covers the last four years of Cromwell’s life. One of the rare negative reviews…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Review – A Sumptuous Return to the Political Snake Pit
– Buckle Up – by Carol Midgley | The Times | November 5, 2024 Four out of Five Stars Can it really be almost a decade since Claire Foy’s Anne Boleyn was led trembling to the scaffold in whipping wind to part company with her head? What a terrible scene, so brilliantly executed in Wolf Hall, the…
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Riveting, Dynamic and Blood Good Fun – Wolf Hall is a Tudor Drama That Beheads Expectations
– Enemies and Advocates Alike – by Nick Hilton | The Independent | November 5, 2024 Four out of Five Stars The course of English history is often mapped out against its Kings and Queens. The Normans, bringing European modernity to a savage isle; the Plantagenets, turning the nation into an international superpower; the Victorians,…
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Wolf Hall Season Two TV Review: The Majestic Return of BBC’s Superlative Tudor Drama
– Rich, Textured Performances – by Dan Einav | The Financial Times | November 5, 2024 Five out of Five Stars King Henry VIII oversaw a break from Papal Rome, established an independent Church of England and remarried, twice, in roughly the same span of time it took for Wolf Hall to come back. The…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, BBC One, Review: This is the Drama of the Year
– Six More Hours of Opulent Television – by Chris Bennion | The Telegraph | November 5, 2024 Five out of Five Stars A lot has changed since early 2015, when Wolf Hall was last on our screens. The UK has been through six prime ministers. President Trump came and went (and may come again before this…
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Wolf Hall Review: His Maniacal Majesty is a Growing Volcano
– No Friend is Safe – Five out of Five Stars by Christopher Stevens | Daily Mail | November 4, 2024 For all his jewels, his furs and finery, his procession of wives and legions of flatterers, the all-powerful Henry VIII lacked one essential item – a selfie stick. As the splendid Tudor drama Wolf…