Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light premieres Sunday, March 23, 2025 on PBS. More about the show can be found here. I thought the first season of Wolf Hall, which covered Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, extremely well done. I didn’t read those books until after seeing the show and probably appreciated how well the show was done even more after reading them. If you have the PBS app on your TV you can watch the first season again for free (at least at the time of this post).

I have yet to read Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light. I liked Wolf Hall much more than Bring Up the Bodies, but I have only heard good things about the last book in the trilogy. Maybe the show will prod me to explore it. Or to tackle Diarmaid MacCulloch’s biography on Cromwell, something I’ve only spot-read in a few chapters so far.

There are extras regarding the show at the PBS site linked above.

For some comments on Thomas More as portrayed in Mantel’s books, see Cynthia Haven’s post Late reflections on Wolf Hall: will the real Thomas More please stand up?