Josiah
Senior Member
- Location
- 50 miles east of Cincinnati, OH
The BBC mini-series “Wolf Hall,” beginning on Sunday night on PBS, is a historical drama of conspicuous quality, like one of the shimmering tapestries hanging in the castles where its 16th-century power players hatch their schemes.
Based on not one but two Booker Prize-winning novels, and starring Mark Rylance, one of the great stage actors of our time, it’s acutely intelligent, luxuriously dressed and well acted across the board. It’s also notably serious and quiet, despite the occasional beheading or session on the rack required by a tale involving Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
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Based on not one but two Booker Prize-winning novels, and starring Mark Rylance, one of the great stage actors of our time, it’s acutely intelligent, luxuriously dressed and well acted across the board. It’s also notably serious and quiet, despite the occasional beheading or session on the rack required by a tale involving Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
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