The BEST episodes directed by Peter Kosminsky

8.77

81 votes

#1 - Episode 1

The Promise - Season 1 - Episode 1

Just as 18-year-old Londoner Erin sets off to spend summer in Israel with her best friend, Eliza, she unearths an old diary belonging to her seriously ill grandfather, Len. Intrigued by the life of this old man she barely knows, she takes the diary with her, and is stunned to learn of his part in the post-WWII British peace-keeping force in what was then Palestine.

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7.94

310 votes

#2 - Master of Phantoms

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 6

Anne divulges to Jane Rochford that Mark Smeaton, Francis Weston and Harry Norris have all declared their love to her, a treasonable offence.

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7.82

307 votes

#3 - Crows

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 5

The Act of Supremacy has declared Henry supreme head of the church in England, but the Holy Roman Emperor has refused to recognise his new title.

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7.81

415 votes

#4 - Entirely Beloved

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 2

As Wolsey retreats north, he urges Cromwell to get close to Anne Boleyn to regain the King's favour.

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7.76

354 votes

#5 - Anna Regina

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 3

Cromwell manoeuvres a bill through Parliament that acknowledges Henry rather than the pope as head of the Church of England.

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7.75

312 votes

#6 - The Devil's Spit

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 4

Anne gives birth to a baby girl. Aware that her power in court rests on producing a male heir, she becomes increasingly paranoid.

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7.74

34 votes

#7 - Light

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 6

Cromwell is stripped of his titles and brought to the Tower of London on a charge of treason. He has no friends to speak for him but plenty of enemies among his prosecutors.

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7.60

53 votes

#8 - Obedience

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 2

As the dissolution of the monasteries gathers speed, Cromwell makes a personal pilgrimage to Shaftesbury Abbey to speak with a young nun, who profoundly shakes his view of himself.

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7.60

52 votes

#9 - Defiance

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 3

A rising in the north destabilises Henry's kingdom. Despite the risks to his own life, Cromwell moves to protect Lady Mary from becoming the rebels’ greatest prize.

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7.51

59 votes

#10 - Wreckage

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 1

As Anne Boleyn’s blood is sluiced from the scaffold, Thomas Cromwell picks his way through the wreckage of her death to take his place as principal councillor to King Henry VIII.

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7.45

584 votes

#11 - Three Card Trick

Wolf Hall - Season 1 - Episode 1

Lacking a male heir, King Henry VIII is desperate to annul his marriage to Katherine of Aragon.

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7.43

42 votes

#12 - Jenneke

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 4

The birth of a prince gives England the heir that Henry longs for, but at a terrible price. As the court grieves for Jane, it falls to Cromwell to find a fourth bride for the king.

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7.35

40 votes

#13 - Mirror

Wolf Hall - Season 2 - Episode 5

Cromwell’s marital diplomacy brings Princess Anne of Cleves to Henry’s court. Will the alliance create a Protestant superpower in northern Europe, or has Cromwell’s luck run out?

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