That's how a lot of English/European shows are. It's weird from an American perspective. I also like how they don't just keep churning out the same show(s) until it's boring tired and needs to be taken out back lol
@@nathanscarlett4772 I'm used to 2 or 3 year breaks between series but I think over 9 years is unprecedented for a program whose story picks up immediately with mostly the same cast from when the first series ended.
@@heliotropezzz333 Certainly there had to be a pause because _The Mirror & the Light_ wasn't published until March 2020 but still I think the production gap is unprecedented for something that isn't a reboot.
I've read all three books twice. I have seen the first series so many times that I can recite the words along with the actors. But I never in a million years thought that I would be laughing at a reel like this! Thank you.
I thought Claire Foy acted Anne Boleyn perfectly. The perfect balance of tough yet vulnerable, attractive yet repulsive, enticing yet haughty. Hard role to get right...
Two things I learned from this series: Henry must have been an EXTREMELY INSECURE guy, almost "childish" at times, and he tried to hide his insecurities beyond that sort of "loud barking" everytime he felt an "itch" - and two! - DAMN! that actor that played him is Great!
Very cute compilation:) I don't understand why Im addicted to Tudor history, I'm amazed by how intrigued it KEEPS me! Lol- I don't get it, but I love it!
no matter how many times I see it I can't help but laugh at his confrontation with harry Percy!, I've never come across any other drama where a villain is threatened to have his bollocks "bitten off"!🤣
Aha! Comedy gold from the show that we used to call Better Call Cromwell Can't wait until the S2 (Mirror and the Light) premiere . . . I think y'all get it on the BBC before we get it here in the US
Just watched the 2nd series. Absolutely brilliant. TV drama in it's own league. If I regretted anything it was that Bernard Hill was no longer with us to play Norfolk.
I also missed the original Lady Rochford although the new one was also great! Timothy Spall as Norfolk did a good job but lost that rawness and threat Bernard Hill had
Cromwell would make mincemeat of Littlefinger; because Cromwell had no weaknesses. Littlefinger had a weakness - Sansa Stark, in the TV show, his obsession with her destroyed him. Cromwell, whatever his other vices, did not run brothels or corrupt young girls.
the look on his face when Anne said "well, perhaps I'm a simple person... do you fee that l I'm?" you could tell he was thinking "what ever you do don't say yes"😁
You should have extended the scene where they think Henry is dead. Cromwell pauses for a second, says "ah", realises a LOT of people think he's above himself because he's a commoner raised high by the king, and he just sighs and grabs a sharp knife, hides it in his sleeve and walks out to face whatever.
@ the first “Wolf Hall” The second, “Bring up the Bodies”, and the third, “The Mirror and the Light.” All authored by Hilary Mantel I hope you enjoy! She had an interesting view of the times and of Thomas Cromwell. The narrator, Simon Vance, make listening to the stories absolutely delicious!
@ My bad! My library carries the first two narrated by Simon Vance, and the third, which is the mirror and the light is narrated by Ben Miles, who does it justice as well!
Which Thomas? Wolsey? More? Cromwell? Or the various other Thomas’s I understand why official titles and using surnames was important. Henry: I want you to execute Thomas. 2 weeks later Your majesty it is done. Henry: thank you now I can let the cardinal secure my divorce. Sorry you didn’t mean Thomas Wolsey? Henry ofcourse not. Sorry sire, excuse me… 2 weeks later Okey my king it’s done, Thomas is dead Finally nobody stands in my way of becoming supreme head of the church. Oh, you meant Thomas more? I thought you meant Cromwell. Ofcourse! Excuse me…… 2 weeks later Okey Thomas More is dead now. 3rd time lucky! Henry: thank you! Now I want you to kill Thomas, who is btw, Queen Catherine’s lover and my servant. Sire? Would be be easier to just round up all the Thomas’s at once and separate the traitors from the rest. Nominal profiling. 2 points make a coincidence 3 points Make a pattern 4. Points make a pattern too big to ignore. Demonstrates that Henry was crazy since he kept hiring Thomas’s Thomas 1 failed to secure his divorce Thomas 2 refused to support the marriage Thomas 3 pushed Henry to marry Anne of cleaves and his disappointment with her became Thomas’s fault. Thomas 4 was his personal assistant and ended up having an affair with Katherine Howard.
I find it hard to pity a man who so ruthlessly carries out the will of a tyrant. Thomas More was by far the better man who placed checks on the Kings ambition rather than acquiescing at every turn to make his will reality and so doom this Sacred and Sceptered Isle.
Diarmid McCulloch’s biography “Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life” is quite sympathetic to Cromwell, and even Thomas More’s admiring biographer, Peter Ackroyd acknowledged that “one of More's first acts as Lord Chancellor after his appointment in January 1530 was to issue a proclamation against heretical works, issuing a list of banned works and demanding that the authorities seek out and prosecute heretics. In this mission, he allied himself to the Bishop of London, John Stokesley, who would acquire the name 'hammer of the heretics', forming a network of informers and conducting interrogations even in More's own Chelsea home. Among many to fall foul of this anti-heretical crusade and the spate of burnings, and that More on several occasions left to ensure burnings or other punishment of heretics the King had decided to reprieve. Between the two of them, I’ll take Cromwell.
You miss the subtle meaning in his expressions and eyes. As Henry's 'right hand man' and in the atmosphere of the Tudor court, it was necessary to be very careful what you said for fear of being declared a traitor and losing your head. Cromwell had to achieve things in the best possible way while tiptoeing through a minefield. Henry, on the other hand could be as effusive and ebullient as he liked.
@heliotropezzz333 mayhaps, but then they're very subtle. I have not seen him in a lot of other productions, but his role here does not scream "acting genius".
I agree that Damian Lewis's performance was extraordinary in this series. But Mark's was also extremely good. I would say that subtle emotions are harder to portray, and he does it very well. The books are basically completely in Cromwell's perspective. He is shown to be smooth, mild, cunning, and it's specifically described that he always tries not to let his exterior betray his emotions. Mark manages to capture that feeling. This video only shows a small aspect of his range shown throughout the whole show.
To be a successful courtier, and a successful and rising advisor to Henry VIII, one had to have great self-control. Especially if the king started to treat you like his good friend - (in which case I would get. the. heck. out. of. town. on. the. fastest. horse.). Henry had a habit of arresting and killing off people he admired, befriended, loved: Cardinal Wolsey, Anne Boleyn and her brother and Henry Norris (Thomas Boleyn and Norris had been the king's friends), Thomas More (who Henry admired, liked, made his Chancellor, etc.), and, eventually, Thomas Cromwell. Norfolk only escaped execution because Henry VIII died before signing a warrant to behead the imprisoned Duke. The only good friend of Henry VIII who died of natural causes (and not in prison) was his pal and brother-in-law Charles Brandon (one of Charles' several wives was Henry's sister Mary), grandfather of future nine-days-queen Jane Grey. Maybe Brandon lived because he was never made Chancellor and never slept with the King (he seems to have definitely been heterosexual). Rylance and Lewis are killing it in their performances. I will enjoy watching this show when it comes to the United States.
I've been literally trying to remember what mario/yoshi song this is from which game for over a year without luck. It drives me nuts and i can't figure it out. Cmon man... What is it?
I never expected a second series nearly 10 years after the first but here we are.
That's how a lot of English/European shows are. It's weird from an American perspective.
I also like how they don't just keep churning out the same show(s) until it's boring tired and needs to be taken out back lol
@@nathanscarlett4772 I'm used to 2 or 3 year breaks between series but I think over 9 years is unprecedented for a program whose story picks up immediately with mostly the same cast from when the first series ended.
you just made my day hell yea
The timing related to when the books were written.
@@heliotropezzz333 Certainly there had to be a pause because _The Mirror & the Light_ wasn't published until March 2020 but still I think the production gap is unprecedented for something that isn't a reboot.
Someone get poor Cromwell an extra strength ibuprofen. 😂 That man’s life is migraine after migraine.
Just wait till Mirror and Light comes out.
@@laurablalock8850 you can't have migraines if you don't have a head😉
@@laurablalock8850🫢🫢🤭
Lmao@@hlim-123
Ambition knows no migraine.
His face when he's told that the dogs will kill the kitten is just priceless.
His face was " do not harm my little kitty, he's my firend"
“By the thrice beshitten shroud of Lazarus” - I am going to use that one myself.
I've been pondering that. Thrice? Once when he died, once in the tomb, and the next on his surprise to find himself alive again?
@@ACandleBurning The Lord moves in mysterious ways, and so, it seems, do the bowels of Lazarus.
It’s too good to not put to use.
@@nickcara97 Not that any of us will match Bernard Hill's delivery. Rest well, Theoden King.
I had to watch that scene like 4 times to figure out what he said.....but im waiting for an opportunity to bust that out.
I love how impressed he is at the thrice-beshitten shroud of Lazarus.
I love it, he's like "shit thats a good one"
I’m still waiting for an opportunity to work this into conversation.
It's a tongue twister.
I've read all three books twice. I have seen the first series so many times that I can recite the words along with the actors. But I never in a million years thought that I would be laughing at a reel like this! Thank you.
I thought Claire Foy acted Anne Boleyn perfectly. The perfect balance of tough yet vulnerable, attractive yet repulsive, enticing yet haughty.
Hard role to get right...
I completely forgot what a murderer's row of a cast this show had
I'm 32 years old and have never heard that phrase before 😂
Agreed. An amazing cast.
@@SabrinajaineAn Americanism - if you’re not American that may be why
@Eratosthenes_276 Ah okay, no I'm British
@@Eratosthenes_276I’m American and I’ve never heard of that either.
Masterpiece. I have watched this dozens of times. Remarkable triumph. Genius.
His face when Gregory says the dog will kill it😂😭
Rylance is mesmerising as Cromwell.
His looks, his timing impeccable and the fact he is utterly gorgeous. I love this edit. It's brilliant. The comments fit the scenes so well.
This man's portfolio is either, poor softly spoken old man or exhausted softly spoken old man and by god, i am ENRAPTURED
Watch Don't Look Up
He's not old and softly spoke .
He is ❤❤❤ everything
Two things I learned from this series: Henry must have been an EXTREMELY INSECURE guy, almost "childish" at times, and he tried to hide his insecurities beyond that sort of "loud barking" everytime he felt an "itch" - and two! - DAMN! that actor that played him is Great!
"...man must've had 500 fingers..."
Very cute compilation:)
I don't understand why
Im addicted to Tudor history,
I'm amazed by how intrigued it KEEPS me! Lol- I don't get it, but I love it!
Born tricky. Can't help it. That is SOOOO me. Brilliant piece of art (the whole series)
"You seriously woke me up for this sh.t" lmfao!!!
The thick of it 16th century version
no matter how many times I see it I can't help but laugh at his confrontation with harry Percy!, I've never come across any other drama where a villain is threatened to have his bollocks "bitten off"!🤣
Aha! Comedy gold from the show that we used to call Better Call Cromwell
Can't wait until the S2 (Mirror and the Light) premiere . . . I think y'all get it on the BBC before we get it here in the US
Just watched the 2nd series. Absolutely brilliant. TV drama in it's own league. If I regretted anything it was that Bernard Hill was no longer with us to play Norfolk.
Imagine the pressure/expectation of taking on that role after Hill. Timothy S does a good job, just doesn’t have the same gravitas.
I also missed the original Lady Rochford although the new one was also great! Timothy Spall as Norfolk did a good job but lost that rawness and threat Bernard Hill had
‘I can't exclude the possibility’
I shall remember that one.
6:29 the way Henry's eyes glaze over 🤣
The puppy dog eyes actually working on Norfolk 😂
"Spoilers for season 1." 😂😂😂
Oh, yeah, because nobody knew what happened before it aired.
Sadly, the conclusion coming soon, will not include Bernard Hill as the Duke of Norfolk due to his passing. I found his portrayal terrifying!
This is amazing. 10 out of 10. No notes. 😄
Crom and Harry are such a cute couple
He hesitates. ‘The king likes me.’
‘The king is an inconstant lover.’
(part 3 chapter 1)
I needed this compilation, so amazing!
Comwell the sass master
Art of expression. No words but speaks a thousand 😅
The OG Petyr Baelish with a dead pan sense of humor
Cromwell would make mincemeat of Littlefinger; because Cromwell had no weaknesses. Littlefinger had a weakness - Sansa Stark, in the TV show, his obsession with her destroyed him. Cromwell, whatever his other vices, did not run brothels or corrupt young girls.
the look on his face when Anne said "well, perhaps I'm a simple person... do you fee that l I'm?" you could tell he was thinking "what ever you do don't say yes"😁
Henry divorced wives and councillors like he was doing a speedrun.
Cromwell must be fun to spill tea with
The scene with Henry calling Cromwell out is absolutely the best.
Mark Rylance is one of the finest actors alive.
: #truefact
Have you seen him in The Outfit? He's superb as a tailor who has to outwit the mob to survive.
Thankyou for making me laugh so much
'How did he look?' Gods i cried laughing when i saw that while watching the series.
The king and Cromwell reminded me of Ted and Ralph 😁
Brilliant 👏 and that music 😂
I just love him.
You should have extended the scene where they think Henry is dead. Cromwell pauses for a second, says "ah", realises a LOT of people think he's above himself because he's a commoner raised high by the king, and he just sighs and grabs a sharp knife, hides it in his sleeve and walks out to face whatever.
1:14 Where was Gondor when Westf.....Nevermind
I named my son in honor of this “person”.
How did Rylance do those scenes with Lewis and not absolutely crack up!!
Would love to see a blooper reel one day
Oh... I found masterpiece...
Cromwell is the most underrated politician in worlds history. Everybody hated him, because he was to smart.
3:50
Bet they had to retake this scene a dozen times. No way these guys wouldn’t break out laughing immediately.
Cromwell's trying to disassociate so hard, lmao.
Oh, his face! Priceless!
When one is in a pit of vipers it is appropriate to act like one
Please please, if you can, do another of these compilations for the second series!
puppy dog eyes . . . Norfolk: wtf
Is it bad I fancy Cromwell??
The series stacks things in his favor.
i have a raging crush on mark rylance in this role
oh my god not at all I literally need him carnally
You're not alone !!
Anne Boleyn gave me a RAGING red flag.
A good manner in which to maneuver around an absurd world...
4:50 "I need to return some video tapes".
Moment when I just finished reading the first book and have not heard of the second season....
(taking notes for future dealings with my own enemies)
You are going to make a part 2, right? Ep 1 of season 2 was just filled with him being done with everyone and everything! 🤣😂
I hope season 2 compilation dropping soon :)
I do to!! Cromwell was even more savage in the 2nd series! He had a lot of great moments of sarcasm!!
Mark Rylance is a gift and a treasure.
If you really want a treat, listen to the audiobooks!
What is the name of audiobook?
@ the first “Wolf Hall” The second, “Bring up the Bodies”, and the third, “The Mirror and the Light.” All authored by Hilary Mantel
I hope you enjoy! She had an interesting view of the times and of Thomas Cromwell. The narrator, Simon Vance, make listening to the stories absolutely delicious!
I would recommend the versions narrated by Ben Miles
@ My bad! My library carries the first two narrated by Simon Vance, and the third, which is the mirror and the light is narrated by Ben Miles, who does it justice as well!
The madness of kings 0_o
Adding another british comedy to my watchlist then.
Never seen a better portrayal of an INTJ personality.
Wasn't he pretty snarky in the books as well
Thomas Cromwell then became a famous psychoanalyst Professor in Canada 😏
Runt : now that I'm thinking again, being a humanbeans not much better than a giant 🤣
1:49 thats real😂
The digital deaging of Bill Connelly is incredible.
I like how they just casted every british actor in existence
There are many more.
Its funnier with the music😂
Which Thomas?
Wolsey?
More?
Cromwell?
Or the various other Thomas’s
I understand why official titles and using surnames was important.
Henry: I want you to execute Thomas.
2 weeks later
Your majesty it is done.
Henry: thank you now I can let the cardinal secure my divorce.
Sorry you didn’t mean Thomas Wolsey?
Henry ofcourse not.
Sorry sire, excuse me…
2 weeks later
Okey my king it’s done, Thomas is dead
Finally nobody stands in my way of becoming supreme head of the church.
Oh, you meant Thomas more? I thought you meant Cromwell.
Ofcourse!
Excuse me……
2 weeks later
Okey Thomas More is dead now. 3rd time lucky!
Henry: thank you! Now I want you to kill Thomas, who is btw, Queen Catherine’s lover and my servant.
Sire? Would be be easier to just round up all the Thomas’s at once and separate the traitors from the rest.
Nominal profiling.
2 points make a coincidence
3 points Make a pattern
4. Points make a pattern too big to ignore.
Demonstrates that Henry was crazy since he kept hiring Thomas’s
Thomas 1 failed to secure his divorce
Thomas 2 refused to support the marriage
Thomas 3 pushed Henry to marry Anne of cleaves and his disappointment with her became Thomas’s fault.
Thomas 4 was his personal assistant and ended up having an affair with Katherine Howard.
There's a line in the novel that acknowledges this. "Half the world is called Thomas. Afterwards, Boleyn will never be
sure if it was him."
I find it hard to pity a man who so ruthlessly carries out the will of a tyrant. Thomas More was by far the better man who placed checks on the Kings ambition rather than acquiescing at every turn to make his will reality and so doom this Sacred and Sceptered Isle.
So fine~kate
1:54 - I thought colonel Sink was responsible for taking him Easy company :).
"Spoilers for season 1" You mean Tudor history? 😂
This version of Cromwell has Columbo vibes, as in the TV series character Columbo played by Peter Falk. Very low key.
Good call. I definitely see it
Screaming
Second series made after the Tudor Windrush docked at Tilbury.
This series made Thomas Cromwell sympathetic. He was actually an awful human being.
Were any of them “good?”
Definitely not a nice man.
Diarmid McCulloch’s biography “Thomas Cromwell: A Revolutionary Life” is quite sympathetic to Cromwell, and even Thomas More’s admiring biographer, Peter Ackroyd acknowledged that “one of More's first acts as Lord Chancellor after his appointment in January 1530 was to issue a proclamation against heretical works, issuing a list of banned works and demanding that the authorities seek out and prosecute heretics. In this mission, he allied himself to the Bishop of London, John Stokesley, who would acquire the name 'hammer of the heretics', forming a network of informers and conducting interrogations even in More's own Chelsea home. Among many to fall foul of this anti-heretical crusade and the spate of burnings, and that More on several occasions left to ensure burnings or other punishment of heretics the King had decided to reprieve.
Between the two of them, I’ll take Cromwell.
@@johnwirenius8152 Thank you. Agreed. At least Cromwell made no bones about being a talented and intelligent opportunist.
Not a Saint.
Unpopular opinion: Mark Rylance is an average actor. He has the same expression in every scene. Damian Lewis runs circles around him in comparison.
You miss the subtle meaning in his expressions and eyes. As Henry's 'right hand man' and in the atmosphere of the Tudor court, it was necessary to be very careful what you said for fear of being declared a traitor and losing your head. Cromwell had to achieve things in the best possible way while tiptoeing through a minefield. Henry, on the other hand could be as effusive and ebullient as he liked.
@heliotropezzz333 mayhaps, but then they're very subtle. I have not seen him in a lot of other productions, but his role here does not scream "acting genius".
I agree that Damian Lewis's performance was extraordinary in this series. But Mark's was also extremely good. I would say that subtle emotions are harder to portray, and he does it very well. The books are basically completely in Cromwell's perspective. He is shown to be smooth, mild, cunning, and it's specifically described that he always tries not to let his exterior betray his emotions. Mark manages to capture that feeling. This video only shows a small aspect of his range shown throughout the whole show.
To be a successful courtier, and a successful and rising advisor to Henry VIII, one had to have great self-control. Especially if the king started to treat you like his good friend - (in which case I would get. the. heck. out. of. town. on. the. fastest. horse.). Henry had a habit of arresting and killing off people he admired, befriended, loved: Cardinal Wolsey, Anne Boleyn and her brother and Henry Norris (Thomas Boleyn and Norris had been the king's friends), Thomas More (who Henry admired, liked, made his Chancellor, etc.), and, eventually, Thomas Cromwell. Norfolk only escaped execution because Henry VIII died before signing a warrant to behead the imprisoned Duke.
The only good friend of Henry VIII who died of natural causes (and not in prison) was his pal and brother-in-law Charles Brandon (one of Charles' several wives was Henry's sister Mary), grandfather of future nine-days-queen Jane Grey. Maybe Brandon lived because he was never made Chancellor and never slept with the King (he seems to have definitely been heterosexual).
Rylance and Lewis are killing it in their performances. I will enjoy watching this show when it comes to the United States.
@TheElMuffin And your role here does not scream "respected arts critic".
Cromwell was an evi man.
HE'S SUCH A MOOD!!! ✨ 🤌🤌. He has nooo chill 😂 I'm convinced this show was a comedy.
I've been literally trying to remember what mario/yoshi song this is from which game for over a year without luck. It drives me nuts and i can't figure it out. Cmon man... What is it?
The song used is called the "Mii Theme"