Wolf Hall and words like: Magnificent and Triumph....plus a glimpse on next weeks episode re reading!!

a few audience comments and believe me its just a selection.-)

critics call it a triumph and a spectacle…with a glorious cast and outstanding performances

audience is enthralled by the series

"How good is Mark Rylance in Wolf Hall as Cromwell & Damian Lewis is best Henry VIIIIIN ever, Bernard Hill gloweringly good Norfolk too BBC2"

"superb! Best Tudor drama I've ever seen"

"Menacing & magnificent"

"Wolf Hall is absolutely fantastic, and features Damian Lewis as a great Henry VIII"

"loving the 'understated'; acting in Wolf Hall. Damian Lewis now showing that threatening malice w expect in a subtle way. Rylance brilliant."

"Beautifully done and gripping to watch. Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis give an extraordinary performance."

"Damian Lewis makes for a wonderful Henry"

"Wolf Hall hitting full stride. Riveting & magnificent. Rylance sublime but Damian Lewis an impressive match. A whole week til the next?"

"great acting, great drama, perfect atmosphere. Feels like we're back in Tudor times"

"Good God, Damian Lewis plays a great King Henry in Wolf Hall2

"Damian Lewis's Henry VIII is just getting better and better. Showing his quieter, more human side"

"Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis owning the screen!"

The relationship between Cromwell and Henry VIII has grown intimate. As Rylance hovered in the tall shadow of Damian Lewis, not presuming to look him in the eye, was anyone else reminded of The Fast Show’s vertical bromance between Charlie Higson’s diffident country gent and Paul Whitehouse’s wary yokel? Except that here Rylance is performing the seduction, and we’re caught in his web.

There’s no gas central heating in Cromwell’s time, but it hardly matters: the heat burning off everyone’s tightly bound flirting is enough to burn down a thousand thatched roofs. They want him because he can protect them or piss off the royal family, or occasionally because they genuinely desire him. In the end, Cromwell – a level headed lawyer – makes the entirely rational choice to be ruled by his heart.
It isn’t always clear who’s actually in control in this episode (that Boleyn girl has a commanding head on her shoulders) but for now, Henry continues to reign. Elsewhere, its reigning cats and dogs – and a whole menagerie of other animals, a veritable garden of Eden as Thomas is asked to consider where his loyalties lie (he’s even proffered an apple at one point, just to hammer the idea home).
Cromwell – almost by accident – begins to make himself invaluable to his king. ‘May I speak?’ he asks hesitantly, only to be met with a snort from Henry. ‘God, I wish someone would’, is the reply.

read the full versions of the reviews on damian-lewis.com 

see here the trailer and clip for next week!!!!!! looks already very very promising