It's been ten years since Damian Lewis and Mark Rylance popped up as Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell, respectively, in the historical drama Wolf Hall, which aired on PBS in the states and BBC Two across the pond. And tonight, the eagerly awaited follow-up Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light will premiere on PBS MASTERPIECE Sundays to catch you up on all of the period-piece drama that's been going down in the Tudor court.
To catch you up — it has been a decade, after all — the Peabody- and Golden Globe-winning Wolf Hall miniseries is the TV adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall novels, with the second season bringing the events of the final book of the trilogy, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, to the screen. The six-part first series documented the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell (Rylance) in the court of Henry VIII (Lewis), with the lawyer becoming a close adviser to the king as he worked to free the royal of his marriage to Anne Boleyn (played by The Crown star Claire Foy).
