Wolf Hall discussion continuation thread

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Continuing the thread from Telly Addicts, just in time for episode 4

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/telly_addicts/2288038-Damian-Lewis-fans-line-up-for-Wolf-Hall-tonight?msgid=52500336#52500336

Devastating.

Best thing I've ever seen on television.

It's rare the TV programme that silences me. DP will miss it

I can buy Rylance being inspired by Robert Mitchum, but Brad Pitt in The Assassination Of Jesse James ? . That was the most Godawful film I've ever seen, no question. Too right did Pitt do nothing. It was excruciating.

Quite simply amazing.

I am now BOF
Questionable jumper, Mark, but I still would

That was a really sad episode......
And yes the execution was true to the novel. The executioner had come from Calais.
Now watching Rylance and Kosminsky on BBC4.

Fantastic. Rylance and Foy both devastating. Surely a clutch of awards there.

When you know the end and you still gasp - that's good tv.

What an incredibly perspicacious point about changing their mindset about a woman as sovereign- Henry and Anne could have been so happy if only they'd been able to envisage it.

Truely, a questionable sweater and a pretty naff roll neck underneath it too.

I'm starting to appreciate the erotic power of a good hat.

Especially if the hat is covering a bald spot.....

So sad it's over. Am saving the BBC4 programme for tomorrow - could not go straight from that last episode into a talk about it all.

Did they use the same child for a young Elizabeth as they used for Carrie & Brodie's child in Homeland?

I wondered about the ginger baby too ......

On hats, I clocked that the French hood had been replaced by the gable hood on most of the women. None of yer sexy French behaviours (with seed in the wrong place) for us anymore!

Sorry to be a wuss folks - I ain't v good with gory stuff. Is the execution scene grim viewing? I had to leave the room for T More.

Thank you.

It's certainly powerful, Dandy, but not gruesome.

Mia Kosminsky (the director's daughter) has favourited two of my tweets

Thank you!

Not gory. But...

The little gasp when the blindfold went on.

The executioner's tricks to make it easier

The ladies clearing up and removing the coffin - did that really happen?

Cor.

The T More execution scene cut away before you saw any gore. For Anne's scene I had to look away, it was unbearable.

I have such mixed memories of reading BUTB, as it was last summer on holiday - I was reading it in a hammock somewhere warm & sunny but feeling quite distressed and traumatised by how dark it all was, especially towards the end! That holiday will always remind me of BUTB!

You are all v kind not to point and laugh btw. Mucho appreciato.

Just watched the BBC4 interview, what do to now that is all over?

Kirsty had fab shoes on... Anyone know what they were?

I had my eyes shut and my fingers in my ears too for good measure

it took ages

Not gruesome at all, but because of that & the way it was done, utterly, utterly horrifying.

Oh I'm a total wuss too Dandy - Jurassic Park scared the beejesus out of me as a child

There is no gore and you don't see the actual beheading. The most you see is blood on the hands and skirts of the ladies who move Anne's body.

I shall iplayer it tomorrow with fingers laced across eyes!