Damian Lewis fans line up for Wolf Hall tonight

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Wednesday 21st January BBC2 Channel 4

lush costumes.

www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/11358197/Damian-Lewiss-inspiration-for-Wolf-Halls-Henry-VIII-Wills-and-Harry.html

I want to take back what I said about Clare Foy. She's actually pretty good

I'm having trouble following, despite knowing the history pretty well. I just can't remember who everyone is meant to be.

Loved the scene with Cromwell and Anne.

It's all far too clean-looking though.

Someone at the BBC is desperate to sex this up..

I don't understand by whose authority that poor chap was condemned- can anyone explain it for me?

Well Henry I assume, but I didn't quite get it either.

Love the lighting in the scenes it's very atmospheric and the rooms look like jewellery boxes.

Disappointed in the scene of Anne's coronation. Looked like the BBC scrimped the budget on that, it was just a few people in a church.

Oh that was near perfection.
DL just keeps getting better, best portrayal of H8 I've ever watched.
The others are just as true to the book, it's so well done.

Wish Tom Crom would trace my collarbone (sigh)...

Question, Johan referred to her mother knowing about her sexing with TC. Her mother? Was Mercy her mother? I thought the Wykes Pater was a widower.

But I thought he was advocating AGAINST Rome?

Anyway, fantastic episode.

Henry wants to break with Rome but right now he doesn't want to be Protestant, he just wants to be in charge.

I think.

So he still believes in the Latin and the transubstantiation and the penance and the purgatory, just not that the Pope is in charge.

I'm 10 minutes behind. He's just got the tapestry.

Yes but Henry was never a Protestant, was he... his problem was with Papal authority rather than with Catholic doctrine and practice per se.

yy think so

I think it was business as usual, burning (protestant) heretics. On Henry's orders

I confess I don't remember the collar bone tracing scene in the book

It was Mores/Henry's law. Only one recantation allowed, second time death for heretics, which he was under the law at that time. TC wanted to spirit him away but he (in the way of all zealots) HAD to tell the world his testament IIRC so a burnin he did go.

Yes I think it was still considered blasphemy at that time to declare that you didn't believe in transubstantiation.

I thought the collar bone tracing was Cromwell's fantasy?

That was in his head yes

Yes he was having a little daydream.

No, I'm pretty sure TC didn't lust after Anne on the book. He could see why Henry and the others did but I feel he saw her pretty clearly. He admired her game but not her. Loving Mary and Jane S. They were more TCs cup of small beer.

I guessed it was him fantasising but I don't remember that happening in the book? I didn't think he found Anne alluring at all.

I don't find her alluring either. The only mis casting in my book.

Exactly Trills. Henry was always a catholic.

I've just looked up where I've seen Anne before - she was Adora Belle Dearheart in Going Postal (Terry Pratchett).