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Wolf Hall: Three Card Trick (2015)
House of Cards with stilettos
This is high powered political drama where the stakes aren't electoral oblivion but your neck and the necks of your friends and family.
There's a Greasy Pole. Very powerful and ruthless men are fighting to climb it and at the top sits the most ruthless and the most powerful. Damien Lewis just gives us a hint of the brooding megalomania and sadism lurking underneath the King's regal vernier in this first episode.
Now throw the Boleyn sisters into the mix. Sexy. Deadly. Able to outmanoeuvre Cardinal Wolsey, the man who had clawed his way to the top of the pole to be Henry's principle GoTo Fixer. Ann manipulating the king by NOT sleeping with him.
Mark Rylance is good. Jonathan Pyrce is very good. Thinking Claire Foy is gonna steal a lot more scenes and anticipating the chemistry between her and Lewis.
Can't wait for episode 2.