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Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light

Adapted to screen by British screenwriter Peter Straughan, and directed by the UK’s Peter Kosminsky, this BAFTA-winning series returns for six moving and immaculately-crafted episodes. Featuring a phenomenal British cast that includes Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Harriet Walter, Kate Phillips and Timothy Spall, the show is co-produced by the BBC and Company Pictures.

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Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) - Henry VIII’s right-hand man - attempts to navigate the Tudor court after the execution of the monarch’s second wife, Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy). As Cromwell rises to the rank of principal councillor to King Henry VIII ((Damian Lewis) as the king prepares to marry Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips), he finds himself attracting powerful enemies.