Mark Rylance is utterly magnetic - 5/5 Strong performances and complex characters continue to make this series a must-watch

One of the rare negative reviews of 2009’s Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall, the first in the late Hilary Mantel’s trilogy of novels offering a sympathetic take on the rise and fall of Henry VIII’s right-hand man Thomas Cromwell,

Season 1 covered the first two books in Mantel’s doorstopper trilogy, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and season 2 will adapt the final book in the series, The Mirror and the Light. Many famous faces will be returning to play the characters that everyone knows from their school lessons on the Tudors.