Category: Review
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Is Historical Fiction At Its Finest
– The Encroaching Noose – by Elijah Gonzalez | Paste Magazine | March 21, 2025 It’s been 10 years since the first season of Wolf Hall charted Thomas Cromwell’s rise in Henry VIII’s court as our scrappy son-of-a-blacksmith navigated a den of aristocratic predators while somehow trying to maintain his morality. It was a precise, beautifully paced…
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When the Walls Close In on the ‘Wolf Hall’ Saga
– Slippery Stones Underfoot – by Roslyn Sulcas | New York Times | March 21, 2025 Mark Rylance sat quietly and alone, his black-capped head bowed, his eyes closed. Nearby in a grand chamber, Damian Lewis stood resplendent in a huge gold jacket, playing King Henry VIII, as the director Peter Kosminsky rearranged some actors…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Is Well Worth the Wait
– Rebellion, Diplomacy, and Intrigue – by Taylor Antrim | Vogue | March 20, 2025 I still remember when the advanced copy of Hilary Mantel’s 2020 novel The Mirror and the Light hit my desk. I was eager to read the final book in Mantel’s titanic Thomas Cromwell trilogy, a series that began with Wolf Hall in 2009 and…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Final Episode Review – One of British TV’s Towering Achievements
– Damian Lewis Has Been a Superlative Henry VIII – by Chris Bennion | The Telegraph | December 15, 2024 Five out of Five Stars A recurring motif of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC One) has been the echoes of the past. Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) throughout this second series, based on the third of Hilary Mantel’s…
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The Ending of Wolf Hall Explained and What Happened to Cromwell’s Son
– The Fate of Henry’s Court – by Ben Dowell | The Times | December 15, 2024 The curtain — or rather the axe — came down on Mark Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell on BBC1 on Sunday night, in one of the most moving scenes seen on the small screen. As he laid his head on the…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Finale Review — Cromwell’s Final Hour Was Spellbinding TV
– Two Towering Performances: Lewis and Rylance – by Ben Dowell | The Times | December 15, 2024 Five out of Five Stars Anyone who found themselves absorbed by Hilary Mantel’s peerless Thomas Cromwell novels or the BBC’s sublime adaptation, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light (BBC1), will have been dreading Sunday night’s inevitable final…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode 6 Review – Light
– Supreme Historical Drama Ended with Elegance and Wit – by Lousia Mellor | Den of Geek | December 15, 2024 Cromwell kept his composure and shrewdness until the last. Moments from his death, this master of government mastered himself to deliver a final speech the real meaning of which was a secret shared between…
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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Episode 5 Review – Mirror
– So Many Maneuvers and Whispers – by Lousia Mellor | Den of Geek | December 8, 2024 What was Henry trying to tell Cromwell by recalling that business with the untaken trip to the Weald? That he’d been searching his memory, and perhaps concluded that the bond he thought they’d shared – like that…