Wolf Hall Blog review episode four

Wolf Hall episode four “The Devils Spit“

Just two more episodes left and that’s actually terribleJ

I will miss it and when you follow our blog from the beginning you know that

I am normally hard to persuade to get myself into a series.

I tried a lot Breaking Bad Boston Legal and Downtown Abbey just to name a few

and they are all very brilliant but I find it hard to keep up and that’s why

I usually stop watching with a very few exceptions like Forsythe Saga Homeland

or Wolf Hall because they are all different and that’s why I am so excited foe Billions and

keep all my fingers crossed constantly for this project because it’s a temporary and absolutely

interesting plot and could be a perfect mixture of drama and a deep look into high finance

which means I learn and enjoy the same time.

Wolf Hall now is a story we all know it’s not that we never heard before of Henry and Cromwell

but the series takes a different look of history and for the first time ever we see Henry not fat and

choleric but human, that’s probably for some viewers   a bit difficult because most of us had a clear

imagination of Henry and now we get a new sight but luckily most of us love it and as we all know

its accuracy  as Henry wasn’t always the fat guy.

Wolf Hall for me has almost every week a big surprise in the pocket and it called Damian Lewis

And his expressive way to play Henry!!

I have almost seen everything Damian was in and a lot of the films and series episode had

one thing in common Damian was able to create very much by doing very little.

Brody was probably the most famous example of what I mean.

Brody had never that wide range of emotions like Carrie and her slightly opera like actions

no he had to act on the edge of his personality and he expressed everything to perfection

sometimes by just raising his eyebrows or you can always reading his feelings in his eyes.

And all this has his Henry but Henry expresses everything really everything in his face

and not only with a flicker no with the whole face and that’s so great  for the King

and for the scenes with Cromwell.

As one critic said this week: “Henry is like a monstrous child”

That is the most perfect description of what I try to sayJ

Henry has very single emotion in his face he hides nothing and that makes him

kind of scary because he seems so capricious  and you are able to see all his thoughts

written all over his face and that’s  so marvellous. it’s a new experience for fans and audience

and I am so happy to witness a whole new aspect in his acting and to explore a Henry I haven’t seen

before in all the movies and yes the Tudors…there I said the word againJ

that made the last four episodes so special for me and especially the last episode, it had

so much emotions in it not only for Henry but also for More aka Anton Lesser!!

Actually Lesser made me a slightly little bit disappointed in Cromwell and Rylance.

Please not much and Mark Rylance is a wonderful actor and made to be Cromwell

but sometimes for my taste and really only for my taste he is a bit too slow and a bit too

reduced in his emotions and I found Lesser in the scenes just better than Rylance`s Cromwell

his reduced acting and emotions are perfect in the scenes with Henry because Lewis`s

King is like a child and you never know what to expect the next moment but Thomas More

Forced Cromwell to deeper emotions and I wish we had seen them better and clearer.

But guess I am just spoiled by Damian Lewis and his marvellous way to express deep

Emotions with just raising his eyebrow and the audience feel deeply for him!!

But again Mark Rylance carries Cromwell through the series with outstanding perfection.

I am a bit of a fan when it comes to Anton Lesser since I have seen him in a Barbican Centre

Production of Julius Caesar in London many years ago and he was outstanding as Brutus

unfortunately so outstanding that he outplayed Ralph Fiennes`s Marc Antony quite wellJ

He is just very very good!!

But the greatest pleasure for me is to discover once more a new site in Damian Lewis`s

acting and can’t wait to see the next episode, the synopsis promise a few scenes between

the King and Cromwell and that’s for me the best moments the series had to offer!!