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Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light's final two episodes, called "Mirror" and "Light," respectively, portray the shocking downfall of Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) as precipitated by his selection of Anne of Cleves (Dana Herfurth) as Henry's fourth wife. But in reality,
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Wolf Hall has concluded, long live Wolf Hall in all its iterations! The final two episodes of the miniseries present viewers with a steep downward slope for our equally flawed and compelling protagonist as one thing after another goes wrong for him. Anna of Cleves’s arrival and all too
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It seems safe to say this plainly: Wolf Hall is a singular television franchise, and the gold standard of virtually everything that prestige television can be and do, it is a tale that is richly acted, thoughtfully written, and deftly structured in ways that make sixteenth-century political drama feel as
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The penultimate episode of Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light finally sees Thomas Cromwell's luck run out. It's a testament to this show's quality that this development — a well-documented historical fact! — manages to feel shocking. A sense of vague doom has followed Cromwell
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Mirrors! Lights! Camera! Action! It’s time for another spin through the lookbooks of Wolf Hall's second season, The Mirror and The Light, in search of the most remarkable costumes. This week's column will cover Episodes 2 through 4 ("Obedience," "Defiance," and
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Historically speaking, Thomas Cromwell is not a man who is easy to know. While many historical records of his public actions survive, we know relatively little about his private life. It's why the Wolf Hall franchise (both the television series and Hilary Mantel's trilogy) is so
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Wolf Hall’s spectacular settings are one of the joys of the series, both in the 2015 original and in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light. However, viewers may wonder if every historic building used in the series is correct to the 1530s. The answer is no, that wouldn’
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As Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light reaches its halfway point, being Thomas Cromwell isn't as easy as it used to be. Sure, the former blacksmith's son has never been as powerful as he is at this precise moment, with the king's ear
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One of the most impressive things about Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light is how ponderous it is. (That's a compliment, by the way.) Everything about this show is both deliberate and incredibly slow-moving, all the better to underscore just how volatile and ever-changing this particular sliver
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Historical accuracy in historical dramas is always a delicate subject, and audiences can and will take offense at what they perceive as inaccuracies or anachronisms. Here is a short selection of what people have objected to so far (let the pearl-clutching commence) since Wolf Hall debuted in 2015: Kate Phillips
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Our long international literary adaptation nightmare is over. Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, and Kate Phillips are back on our screens for the next six weeks, and while a great many things are not remotely all right with either the worlds of Tudor England or the present day, at least we
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It's been a decade since Wolf Hall first graced our screens. In the intervening years, we've seen plenty of takes on Tudor England, from the somewhat faithful (Becoming Elizabeth) to the stridently feminist (The White Princess, The Spanish Princess, Firebrand) and the downright fantastical (My Lady