Wolf Hall: Season 2

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PBS | BBC Two | Season Premiere Date: March 23, 2025

Summary: Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) is still not safe from his enemies even with Anne Boleyn dead and King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis) remarried to Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips) in the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's final Cromwell novel.

[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 10 Nov 2024 and in the US as a part of PBS' Masterpiece on 23Thomas Cromwell (Mark Rylance) is still not safe from his enemies even with Anne Boleyn dead and King Henry VIII (Damian Lewis) remarried to Jane Seymour (Kate Phillips) in the adaptation of Hilary Mantel's final Cromwell novel.

[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC One on 10 Nov 2024 and in the US as a part of PBS' Masterpiece on 23 Mar 2025 as Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light]… Expand

Genre(s): Drama

Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E4. The Mirror and the Light Light
Air Date: December 15, 2024
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S2:E3. The Mirror and the Light Mirror
Air Date: December 8, 2024
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S2:E2. The Mirror and the Light Jenneke
Air Date: December 1, 2024

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John Anderson

Mar 20, 2025

An event. .... Rylance’s Cromwell is an astonishing mix of empathy, doom and hope. .... The dialogue is fluid and of its time, so much so that you forget someone wrote it (Peter Straughan did), or that it was directed (by Peter Kosminsky). Read full review

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The Telegraph Chris Bennion

Jan 7, 2025

There is no small thrill in watching Rylance, at last, go through the gears. .... Damian Lewis is excellent as Henry, his body and country and wives failing him. .... Few moments of inelegance stand out in Peter Straughan’s otherwise superb scripts, which are marvels of concision. Read full review

100

Verne Gay

Mar 19, 2025

TV's best of the year, so far. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Matt Roush

Mar 20, 2025

In a production shimmering with period authenticity, Rylance reaffirms his status among U.K. acting royalty, creating a figure weighted by sorrow and remorse. [24 Mar - 13 Apr 2025, p.4]

Aramide Tinubu

Mar 24, 2025

This season doesn’t quite have the same thrilling tones as its predecessor. Though there are stunning revelations, it’s a dense internal examination of a man who can feel his time running out. Read full review

Kayleigh Dray

Mar 18, 2025

Despite the mammoth 10-year gap between seasons, they flow seamlessly into one another, which is no small feat considering the likes of the Duke of Norfolk had to be recast. The only real issue with this season, perhaps, is that it has to condense nearly 800 pages of Mantel’s fiction into just six episodes. Read full review

Mike Hale

Mar 24, 2025

Lewis’s contained, preternaturally magnetic performance is as sure an embodiment as you could imagine of the force of a powerful monarch. It has an effect on the show that is both historically authentic and dramatically problematic: When Lewis is offscreen, we, like Cromwell and the other courtiers, are anxiously waiting to see what he will do next. The prodigious Rylance is fine, but Cromwell’s role in “The Mirror and the Light” involves a preponderance of rueful staring into space. Read full review

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Series Overview
Season 2

89
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: March 23, 2025
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  S2:E4. The Mirror and the Light Light
  Air Date: December 15, 2024
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  S2:E3. The Mirror and the Light Mirror
  Air Date: December 8, 2024
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  S2:E2. The Mirror and the Light Jenneke
  Air Date: December 1, 2024
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  S2:E1. The Mirror and the Light Defiance
  Air Date: November 24, 2024
Season 1

86
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 21, 2015