#the mirror and the Light

[i-am-countess-olivia]

Happy “The Mirror and the Light” premiere night to all who celebrate

[historyartthings]

The parallels, the parallelsssss

[cloudywithachanceofjam]

opening episode of wolf hall series 2 had me close to tears from how perfect it was

highlights/spoilers below cut

CROMWELLLLLLL (*slaps mark rylance right on top of his little cromwell head* this guy can fit so much Talent in him)

rafe just Watching and Looking Nervous in every scene was excellent

new gregory actor just has something about him? bro has that je ne sais quoi

jane stroking cromwell’s furs??? hELLO? such a small moment such a huge impact I’m going to climb the WALLS

margaret pole margaret pole-ing in enough fur to bankrupt a small country I am THRIVING

wolsey is There

I was worried that the scenes with mary and cromwell would come across so strange but they were done so well

jane’s wedding outfit (though what’s with the hair?)

just the absolute pleasure of having crumb and his girlies (rafe n richard n annoying bitch call-me) all flocked around him with massive fucking sleeves

[gablehood]

Honestly I love the choice to begin TMATL with that long lingering shot of Anne being rowed to The Tower. It feels so haunting. Ofc the shot was already used in the s1 finale, but this time it feels so different framed in a new context, with a ghostly stillness. She's already gone, already a memory, already haunting Cromwell. It begins with her downfall and it will end with his. He says his goodbyes to the goddesses; a last flitting glance over his shoulder. No trace of Anne Boleyn. He remembers her saying - was it in this very room? - 'Be good to me.' He thinks, if I see her again, perhaps this time I will.

[wolfhalledits]

Thomas Cromwell + Marlinspike Wolf Hall | Episode 2 'Entirely Beloved'

Look. "I am a giant... My name is Marlinspike. Grrrr!"

+bonus: Wolsey with Marlinspike

[thomascromwelll]

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and The Light Trailer (x) — Careful, Thomas. You will feel the lash.

[wulfhalls]

he thinks, follow

[dxcstrange-stuff]

"The Mirror and the Light"

Lithography, 2024

[cinemaocd]

Charlie Rowe (Gregory Cromwell) in costume for The Mirror and the Light

[cortegiania]

Harriet Walter as Margaret Pole in Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

[alilyamongroses]

Kate Phillips as Queen Jane Seymour, Damien Lewis as Henry VIII and Lily Lesser as Princess Mary in season two of Wolf Hall

[historyartthings]

Cromwell?? Actually styled in colour???? Not black???

[diotimas]

moments in the mirror and the light teaser that make me go insane already

[wolfhalledits]

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in WOLF HALL (2015)

"I hazard that when Cromwell’s household heard of his arrest in June 1540, they began a systematic process of destroying the out - tray of his principal archive, much aided by the fact that two of his own officers were left in charge of it for least another year. Their hope would have been to save their master from destruction, for a man is much more easily convicted by his own writings than by the letters he has received. The royal confiscation team would not initially have noticed the character of the huge quantities of papers deferentially presented for their inspection when they arrived at the door. 2 It was a good try, although it did not succeed. The result is that amid the torrent of paperwork through which the conscientious biographer wades to recapture what is left of Thomas Cromwell, the man’s own voice is largely missing. We hear more of it out of Lord Lisle’s papers than in Cromwell’s own. Hilary Mantel has sensitively captured this quality in Thomas Cromwell’s archive in her novels: her Cromwell is pre - eminently an observer, even of himself, not ‘I’ but ‘he’." — MacCulloch, D. (2018). Thomas Cromwell: a life. Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, [London]

[thomascromwelll]

Kate Phillips [Jane Seymour] on the set of Wolf Hall: The mirror and The Light

[wulfhalls]

OUR BEST FRIEND TIMTOM CROMWELL IS BACKK YES IT GIRL SERVE <3333333