I am a huge History buff, and when I saw an ad for this on TV two years ago, I thought "What a cool topic!" But then I saw the PBS logo and grew disheartened. From my experience, PBS documentaries often show the only good bits of the show in the trailer, and the rest is boring. This was FAR, FAR from the truth in this case! But fast forward two years, and I am sitting at home with nothing to do. I am scrolling through the IMDb pages of my favorite actors, trying to find something new to watch. On Tom Holland's page, I found Wolf Hall and remembered back to the ad from two years ago. I thought I'd give it a whirl. And boy was it fantastic. I will admit, all of the jumps in time were confusing at first, and Thomas' daughters looked like the daughters of his sister-in-law, adding to my confusion in some of the scenes. But once you get the hang of the time jumps, the show really shines. The acting was fantastic, Mark Rylance's performance especially. The political drama was not at all boring, and it was very satisfying to watch all of the pieces come together and to watch Cromwell's "playing of the game," as Petyr Baelish from Game of Thrones would call it. This is a must watch for all history buffs out there, as well as for anyone into a good political drama with relatable characters and a good plot. As a side note, I love to play a little game where I try to spot as many familiar actors as I can in a new show. Careful viewers might be able to spot King Theoden, Tycho Nestoris of the Iron Bank of Braavos, Qyburn, Spider-Man/Peter Parker, Captain Winters, the brother of the actor who plays Stannis Baratheon, and if you are really careful, Shireen Baratheon. Happy hunting!

I've seen all of the episodes of Wolf Hall so far, and I absolutely love Mark Rylance's performance! I rarely have the opportunity to see one program that shows a character from history played so well. Rylance takes us through it all with his subtle acting. At the beginning he's heart-breaking when almost all of his family dies from disease. Then we see his conniving in the background to work with the powers that be. We see him shift from quiet "toady" to a conniving, creepy and dangerous man. The series goes slowly through the politics of Henry III and Anne Boleyn with all the backstabbing in the shadows.We loved this series and hope to see it continue to the end of Thomas Cramner's life.

I don't know what to say about the acting, because when the dialogues are written in a very dumm way and sort of costumed in the way we speak in 21st century, doesn't really matter how they say it, it'll come out as bad material. The music was really bad. The instrumentations where partly according to the time but the composition style was the typical style of now a days series music. It was as many others might say very slow. There where so many scenes which could have easily been cut off. Some might find the movie great but I reckon it's mostly because this historic event itself (Henry and all his queens and treasons) is very attractive. For another vision at the same historic era and events I recommend "The man for all seasons" (1966).

no dialog or very little of it , jumping around with no detail -shallow characters, good acting when they actually had something to say. Im on the last episode and I got to say its basically a snooze fest. if you want entertainment watch the Tudors it may not be historically accurate but at least you will not fall asleep. SO disappointed in it. I mean King Henry has like 20 line in the whole show and Cromwell is so quite with his piercing looks you think when will he actually say something of note. I had just finished watching the Tudors because I would soon be watching this series. I really don't know why it has such high ratings. With jumping years between episodes and little dialog,I think it would make someone who does not know about this story ever want to try to learn about it again. which is a shame.