You know how much we all loved the first series of Wolf Hall back in 2015, so we’ve been waiting on tenterhooks until the next installment, The Mirror and the Light, finally came to the U.S. via PBS Masterpiece. Was it worth the wait? FUCK YEAH! I mean, sure, it would have been nice not to have to wait, but first Hilary Mantel had to finish writing the final book that the TV show would be based on, which didn’t happen until 2020. So there was that. And unfortunately she died in 2022, making the production team wonder if they should go on at all.
Plus, the costs of making TV at this high quality doubled in the past decade (even with Wolf Hall‘s actors taking pay cuts), all of which forced director Peter Kosminsky to tell the U.K. parliament how they need funding for prestige public broadcasting (psst, so do we in the U.S.! donate to your local station ASAP because jerks in our government are trying to cut the minuscule funding PBS currently gets). Let’s treasure this series as the brilliant jewel it is, and hope to hell it’s not the last we’ll see that respects history as much as storytelling.
I thought I might just give a few recappy highlights, but I was way too excited once I started watching the new series on PBS Passport — a nice perk, btw, of donating to my local station; I can watch online or through my smart TV. All 6 episodes are available at once on Passport, so I can catch up with our British brethren who’ve seen it all already.
So here I go through the costumes in the whole series, starting with the first three episodes this week!
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