Last Updated on August 1, 2024
“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” the follow-up to the award-winning and critically acclaimed miniseries “Wolf Hall,” is coming to MASTERPIECE on PBS.
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Based on the novel by Hilary Mantel, Season 2 of the series charts the end of Thomas Cromwell’s story. Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis return as Cromwell and King Henry VIII.
Read on to see the first 10 photos of the British period drama, and for everything we know so far, including when “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” premieres in the US.
Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light on MASTERPIECE
MASTERPIECE PBS and the BBC have revealed a first look at “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light,” based on the final novel in Hilary Mantel’s multi award-winning trilogy, as filming comes to a close in the spring of 2024.
The new pictures show Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell, Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII, Kate Phillips as Jane Seymour, Lilit Lesser as Princess Mary, Jonathan Pryce as Cardinal Wolsey, Harriet Walter as Lady Margaret Pole, Harry Melling as Thomas Wriothesley, Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Rafe Sadler, Timothy Spall as the Duke of Norfolk, Alex Jennings as Stephen Gardiner and Charlie Rowe as Gregory Cromwell.
May, 1536. Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, is dead. As the axe drops, Thomas Cromwell emerges from the bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.
Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, and no private army. Navigating the moral complexities that accompany the exercise of power in this brutal and bloody time, Cromwell is caught between his desire to do what is right and his instinct to survive. But in the wake of Henry VIII having executed his queen, no one is safe.
Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform.
But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze?
Eagerly awaited and years in the making, “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” will trace the final four years of Cromwell’s life, completing his journey from self-made man to the most feared, influential figure of his time.
Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a diplomat and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.
Reuniting the creative team from the BAFTA and Golden Globe winning first series, “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” is directed by seven-time BAFTA award winner Peter Kosminsky (Wolf Hall, Wuthering Heights), adapted for television by Academy award nominee Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Frank) and produced by Colin Callender’s Playground (Dangerous Liaisons, All Creatures Great and Small) and Company Pictures (The Village, The White Queen).
When Will Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Premiere on PBS?
The Tudor era period series “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” will air on MASTERPIECE on PBS in 2025. Stay tuned for the exact release date. (“Wolf Hall” (Season 1) first aired on PBS in April, so maybe April 2025?)
“Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light” will be available to stream on the PBS App, the PBS MASTERPIECE Prime Video Channel and PBS.org.
Need to catch up? “Wolf Hall” (2015) is AVAILABLE to STREAM
In preparation for its sequel, “Wolf Hall” (2015) will be available to watch with PBS Passport beginning August 1, 2024.
If you enjoyed this post, you’ll want to wander over to The Period Films List. Also see the list of MASTERPIECE Classic Period Dramas Streaming on Prime Video.
