❮ Wolf Hall
Season 2
Season Premiere:
Mar 23, 2025
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
89
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
89
92% Positive
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
8% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Mar 20, 2025
100
An event. .... Rylance’s Cromwell is an astonishing mix of empathy, doom and hope. .... The dialogue is fluid and of its time, so much so that you forget someone wrote it (Peter Straughan did), or that it was directed (by Peter Kosminsky).
Jan 7, 2025
100
There is no small thrill in watching Rylance, at last, go through the gears. .... Damian Lewis is excellent as Henry, his body and country and wives failing him. .... Few moments of inelegance stand out in Peter Straughan’s otherwise superb scripts, which are marvels of concision.
Mar 26, 2025
94
Altogether, it’s an arresting piece of historical fiction that charts the journey of a man who is always one bad conversation away from death; we may be 500 years removed from these events, but this series ensures you can still hear the sharpening of the axe.
Mar 24, 2025
90
This season doesn’t quite have the same thrilling tones as its predecessor. Though there are stunning revelations, it’s a dense internal examination of a man who can feel his time running out.
Mar 18, 2025
83
Despite the mammoth 10-year gap between seasons, they flow seamlessly into one another, which is no small feat considering the likes of the Duke of Norfolk had to be recast. The only real issue with this season, perhaps, is that it has to condense nearly 800 pages of Mantel’s fiction into just six episodes.
Jan 7, 2025
80
Bar a few stodgy lulls, from the two episodes (of six) I’ve seen, this second series crackles with tension, driving forward the busy plot points: succession, ambition, peril, absolutism, religious turmoil, omnipresent female powerlessness and fear.
Mar 24, 2025
60
Lewis’s contained, preternaturally magnetic performance is as sure an embodiment as you could imagine of the force of a powerful monarch. It has an effect on the show that is both historically authentic and dramatically problematic: When Lewis is offscreen, we, like Cromwell and the other courtiers, are anxiously waiting to see what he will do next. The prodigious Rylance is fine, but Cromwell’s role in “The Mirror and the Light” involves a preponderance of rueful staring into space.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.1
62% Positive
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Mar 25, 2025
8
This would be a 10 if it weren't for the woke nonsense of having black and Middle Eastern actors in the background. I dont doubt they are fine actors, but its as silly as having white actors appearing in a historical fiction of Tmbuqtu. Diversity is ridiculous when thus applied.
May 18, 2025
0
,I find it incredibly insulting and dishonorable portraying people of color as privileged. Blacks were not on the King’s Court. Blacks were not ladies in waiting. Why do white liberals insist on sugar coating history? It was not nice being a person of color in the 1500’s in England. The race swapping actually hurts people of color. It’s also very distracting to have the proper races in Season 1, which was done pre-woke nonsense. Then Season 2 filmed almost a decade later color swapping. Shame on you!
