[vladimir998]

There are FReepers who are just as determined to attack More as the writer of this tv show.

[TomGuy]

Have been recording it, but haven’t watched any of the episodes yet.

[PGR88]

I’ve never heard of this TV show before (I rarely watch TV), but after reading the review, I’m going to make a guess and say the writer of the series, Mark Rylance is a homosexual.

I’m relying on Krauthammer’s very brief synopsis, but the anti-catholic themes he describes seem so much the typical and hackneyed ones one constantly sees from homosexuals with an axe to grind.

Now I’m going to do some research on this Rylance chap to see if my hunch is correct....

[BenLurkin]

I’ve got new for Dr. Krauthammer — history is distorted from the very first moment a historian puts pen to paper.

[llevrok]

All history is revised to one degree or another seconds after the event happens.

One thing I am certain of is that there was enough blame on all the players in Henry’s circle.

[windcliff]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

*possible ping of interest*

[ponygirl]

I'm watching this as well... Since discovering an ancestor who was imprisoned and tortured for being a Catholic during Elizabeth I, I've completely devoted myself to learning the history of the Tudor era that I did not learn in school. What I did not know anything about was the violent history of the borderlands and how that played out during Henry VIII.

As for the series, it's certainly better than "The Tudors" series on Showtime. But after watching the"Outlander" series on Starz (about the Jacobites), I find myself critiquing the costuming on Wolf Hall. I can't help it and it's getting in the way of my enjoyment of the series. Henry looks ludicrous parading around in his grandmothers bed quilt. When you compare that with the beautiful fabrics, gorgeous settings and accuracy in detail they've created in Outlander, Wolf Hall falls pretty flat.

[Veto!]

For those who haven’t seen it, or even if you have, Masterpiece has very detailed rundowns of what happens in each episode:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/programs/features/recap/wolf-hall-s1-e1-15-essentials/

[Oratam]

Years ago, flipping through second hand paperbacks, I found one titled "The Tudor Police State."

It's had me thinking ever since.

[MinuteGal]

Yo !!

Leni

[sauropod]

I just bought this series.

I have watched all but the last episode. It really is maddingly good.

PS. still sorting out the history, but there you have it.

[Bigg Red]

Faced with an imaginative creation of such brooding, gripping, mordant intensity, you find yourself ready to pay for it in historical inaccuracy.

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No sale here, Charles.