It seems pleasingly apropos that it is almost impossible to believe that the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall appeared on our screens almost a decade ago.
Straughan and Kosminsky lay their opening scene just days after Anne’s death, intermingling the preparations of the king (Damian Lewis) for his new bride with Cromwell’s memories of the late queen’s final moments. In the unlikely event that you don’t recall Claire Foy as the condemned woman barely mastering her terror on the scaffold, here are a handful of scenes to bring it rushing back. Time collapses once more – between us and 2015, us and the Tudor court, and between Cromwell and this (particular) fell deed he brought about.
