I really enjoyed this. I thought it was grown-up and credited the viewers with intelligence (apart from the 'so let us set the scene for why Henry wants to divorce Katherine' over explanation bit). But it looked sumptuous and I immediately googled the characters to find out what happened as I'd forgotten.
My fingers are crossed for a Shardlake series...that would be bloody brilliant. Although Shardlake himself might be tricky. I see Toby Jones perhaps.
(By the way, shameless name drop...I worked with Mark Rylance on a project many years ago. He was very quiet, thoughtful, a very dry sense of humour and an altogether lovely man. I then bumped into him at a party many years later. I was rather squiffy and bounded up to him, gushing about our previous meeting like a massive twat well, MN he was a gent. Utterly lovely and he actually remembered me. I luffs him and he is a blinding actor)
I like Damian Lewis who actually seems to look like early portraits of Henry before he got all bloated and corpulent.