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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 impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?
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- E1 Three Card TrickNext upJan 21, 2015 · 65 min · ★ 7.2
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Lacking a male heir, the King is desperate to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.
Guest stars: Jonathan Pryce (Cardinal Wolsey), Harry Lloyd (Harry Percy), Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), Anton Lesser (Thomas More), Joanne Whalley (Katherine of Aragon), Mark Gatiss (Stephen Gardiner), Luke Roberts (Harry Norris), Emilia Jones (Anne Cromwell)
- E2 Entirely BelovedJan 28, 2015 · 60 min · ★ 7.3
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As Cardinal Wolsey retreats north, he urges Cromwell to get close to Anne Boleyn.
Guest stars: Jonathan Pryce (Cardinal Wolsey), Harry Lloyd (Harry Percy), Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), Anton Lesser (Thomas More), Mark Gatiss (Stephen Gardiner), Luke Roberts (Harry Norris), Tom Holland (Gregory Cromwell), Will Keen (Thomas Cranmer)
- E3 Anna ReginaFeb 4, 2015 · 60 min · ★ 7.3
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Cromwell has Parliament acknowledge Henry as head of the Church of England.
Guest stars: Jonathan Pryce (Cardinal Wolsey), Harry Lloyd (Harry Percy), Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), Anton Lesser (Thomas More), Joanne Whalley (Katherine of Aragon), Mark Gatiss (Stephen Gardiner), Ed Speleers (Edward Seymour), Luke Roberts (Harry Norris)
- E4 The Devil's SpitFeb 11, 2015 · 60 min · ★ 6.7
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Aware that her power in court rests on producing a male heir, Anne becomes paranoid.
Guest stars: Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), Anton Lesser (Thomas More), Ed Speleers (Edward Seymour), Tom Holland (Gregory Cromwell), Will Keen (Thomas Cranmer), Aimee-Ffion Edwards (Elizabeth Barton), Louise Kimber (Alice Williamson), Richard Durden (Bishop Fisher)
- E5 CrowsFeb 18, 2015 · 60 min · ★ 7.6
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The Act of Supremacy has declared Henry supreme head of the church of England.
Guest stars: Jonathan Pryce (Cardinal Wolsey), Kate Phillips (Jane Seymour), Joanne Whalley (Katherine of Aragon), Mark Gatiss (Stephen Gardiner), Ed Speleers (Edward Seymour), Luke Roberts (Harry Norris), Tom Holland (Gregory Cromwell), Will Keen (Thomas Cranmer)
- E6 Master of PhantomsFeb 25, 2015 · 60 min · ★ 7.8
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After uncovering treasonable offences, Cromwell exacts the ultimate revenge.
Guest stars: Ed Speleers (Edward Seymour), Luke Roberts (Harry Norris), Tom Holland (Gregory Cromwell), Will Keen (Thomas Cranmer), Richard Dillane (Duke of Suffolk), Sarah Crowden (Lady Exeter), James Larkin (Master Treasurer Fitzwilliam), Nigel Cooke (Sir Nicholas Carew)
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Created by Peter Straughan, Peter Kosminsky, Hilary Mantel
Mark Rylance
Damian Lewis
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Joss Porter
Charlie Rowe
Harry Melling
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CinemaSerfAug 24, 2024
Based on Hilary Mantel's imaginative novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" this six part drama tells the story of the machinations at the court of England's King Henry VIII (Damien Lewis) as he falls in lust then love with Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy). Her refusal to join the ranks of his mistresses means the king has to find a way to extricate himself from his twenty year marriage to Katherine of Aragon (Joanne Whalley). Trying to get the Pope to agree to the annulment is… Read more
the tricky task that falls to Wolsey (Jonathan Pryce) - the Chancellor who has an whole slew of enemies waiting for him to fail. The one man who is steadfastly in Wolsey's corner, though, is the ambitious and shrewd lawyer Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) and with the Cardinal's position becoming more precarious by the day and the king's infatuation becoming more dangerous for any opposition, the scene is set for some high political manoeuvring. This dramatisation offers us a different timeframe for it's chronology than we are more used to, and isn't so focussed on the person of the king. It's told more from the perspective of the ambitious and scheming Cromwell who learns quickly how to walk on the eggshells that are strewn all over the Tudor court. The assembled cast deliver strongly as the power vacuum constantly needs filling - Bernard Hill's Duke of Norfolk isn't a man to mess with; Anton Lesser offers a far less benign Sir Thomas More than was written in the more famous Robert Bolt "A Man For All Seasons" novel, Lewis serves well as the lovestruck and increasingly desperate (for a son) monarch who comes to rely more and more on his new advisor and then there's Rylance himself who delivers a considered, subtly menacing and calculating, leading role as temperatures begin to rise. It's fairly faithfully adapted by Peter Straughan to provide this speculative but mischievously entertaining glimpse into the lives of a group of powerful and/or power-hungry people you wouldn't trust if your life depended on it - and frequently, it does! Weak spot? Well that's Foy. She speaks the lines well enough, but her heart isn't in it enough and her characterisation simply lacks depth. For that we are better with the much more exploitative depiction from Charlotte Rampling ("Anne of the Thousand Days" - 1969). Visually, the attention to the aesthetic detail is typical of the BBC - highly polished period drama with great costumes and some great locations including Penshurt Place which was used by the corporation back in 1971 for "Elizabeth R". It's history, so we know who thrives and who gets their comeuppance, but this narrative still unfolds with enough intrigue and complexity to illustrate well the culture of fear, superstition and violence that prevailed in 16th century England.
