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Last week, Thomas Cromwell did the right thing for the country and saved Henry VIII's life. He will not live to repent that decision in leisure. This week, his choice comes back to bite him. Wolf Hall reaches its inevitable conclusion as Anne Boleyn fails to save herself.
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Much like William Shakespeare's history plays, Wolf Hall takes history (in this case, history that happened just before Shakespeare's time) and retells it via the sensibilities of modern authors. However, much like plays like Julius Caesar and The Henriad, the dramatic liberties novelist Hillary Mantel and
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One of the U.K.’s long-standing traditions is telling ghost stories at Christmas. The most famous, of course, is A Christmas Carol, in which a rich man is terrorized into paying his staff a living wage. However, Dickens was merely following a tradition older than he was; Victorian writers
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In one of the most remarkable episodes of Wolf Hall's first season, Hillary Mantel takes the plot of the famous Oscar-winning film A Man For All Seasons and argues that actually, Thomas More was a self-centered fool. Meanwhile, Anne may have nurtured her way to be queen, but
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As Wolf Hall reaches its midpoint, Thomas Cromwell has lost his protector in Wolsey and needs to find a way to keep himself at the king's right hand, lest Henry suddenly turn on him. What better way than to hook one's self to a rising star?
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If the first episode of Wolf Hall was setting up a giant chess board for the Great Game to play out, this week, the power players begin to make their moves. Whereas last week spent an hour slowly building to the arrival of the main focus of our tale, Anne
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Welcome to Wolf Hall, the world of 16th-century politics and intrigue. It is 1529, and the issue of King Henry VIII's first marriage is coming to a head. And, as the opening placard tells us, the king is not a forgiving man. Cromwell: The rumor is the king
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The first images are here from Bookish, the forthcoming Alibi series that's also a charmingly refreshing new entry in the long tradition of British crime dramas about people with normal day jobs who also help solve murders on the side. As the title indicates, this time around, the
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A Ghost Story for Christmas initially debuted in 1971 on the BBC, a Christmas Eve anthology series of scary stories to tell in the dark while awaiting Santa. The original iteration ran for seven years, concluding in 1978. The first five adaptations were based on M.R. James' famous
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Following her near-death in the finale of Magpie Murders, editor-turned-amateur detective Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) has left London for the gorgeous vistas of Crete in Moonflower Murders, where she is running a hotel with her longtime boyfriend Andreas (Alexandros Logothetis). But there’s trouble in paradise: running a hotel is
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Filming has officially begun on Bookish, the latest entry in the longstanding British mystery tradition of "people with increasingly random jobs who also help the police solve murders for fun". This one, perhaps the most perfectly imagined TV take on this concept yet, focuses on a gay bookshop
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It is a truth universally acknowledged that in the world of British drama, you don't need to be Sherlock Holmes to solve crime. No, really; in many of the U.K.'s popular dramas, you don't need to be trained as a detective or honestly