This is an accomplished production in many ways, but, almost too focused on the task at hand, it lacks emotional heft, skips too quickly over key scenes and can’t ever fully escape the shadow of the axe.
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The Mirror and the Light dramatises – supremely well – the concluding volume in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning trilogy about Thomas Cromwell...
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This is absolutely not a weepie tragedy, but a fast, often very funny political thriller...But although Herrin’s production zips through all this in a relatively short space of time, it never feels perfunctory.
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Yet it seems hand-stitched to delight those who love historical drama served up without a heavily mediating modernity or, that increasing bane, woke-inflected judgmentalism.
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Hardcore Mantel fans will no doubt still want to see how their vision compares. Everyone else would be better off with the book or audiobook — set at the right speed, of course.
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