Did they have to get Damian Lewis to pack on 200 pounds? 🤣

More seriously, the show never quite grabbed me, but it was pretty good and maybe I should revisit it. I also once listened to a podcast, though I can’t remember if it was the AskHistorians podcast or the 5-Minute Medievalist’s podcast, but they had on the show’s costume consultant to talk about the show and her academic work with Tudor material culture generally, and it was great.

I can’t believe 9 years have passed since the first Season of Wolf Hall. The show is a primer on English nobility, and the English break with Rome, during the reign of Henry VIII, and is so thick, nuanced, and smart, it’s a joy to have just rewatched the first season last week in preparation for Season 2 which just began. Rylance’s Thomas Cromwell is played mostly in his face. Lot’s of face acting in this show.