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Wolf Hall (TV Miniseries)

Wolf Hall

2015

Peter Kosminsky

Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Jonathan Pryce ...

7.2

829

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries (2015). 6 Episodes. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impass steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Hank Stuever The Washington Post	"It doesn’t matter if you know precisely where this story leads (...), 'Wolf Hall' is about as compellingly and meticulously crafted as television gets."
		Robert Bianco USA Today	"One of the best TV programs you'll find in this or any season. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of four)"
		Brian Lowry Variety	"Anchored by Mark Rylance’s towering central performance, 'Wolf Hall' is a very quiet 'Masterpiece'."
		Mike Hale The New York Times	"It’s acutely intelligent, luxuriously dressed and well acted across the board. It’s also notably serious and quiet."
		Joanne Ostrow Denver Post	"Gorgeous, high-minded, beautifully acted and sluggish."
		Sam Wollaston The Guardian	"Sumptuous, intelligent and serious (...) Mark Rylance is hypnotic, understated but totally screen-owning"
		Emily Nussbaum The New Yorker	"The show’s deliberately paced six hours turn out to be riveting, precisely because they are committed"
		Serena Davies Telegraph	"Kosminsky is working with a masterful script from Peter Straughan (...) it is lucid but it is intricate (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Margaret Lyons Vulture	"Largely excellent (...) The most surprising feature of 'Wolf' is its sense of humor (...) Rylance is so hypnotizing, it’s easy to get carried away just on his performance alone"

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