Three Card Trick2015-01-21
The premiere establishes Cromwell's world obliquely - we enter through Cardinal Wolsey's fall rather than Cromwell's rise, and the show's distinctive grammar of silences and sidelong looks is immediately apparent. Rylance says very little; everything is communicated in the gap between what is said and what is decided. Damian Lewis as Henry VIII arrives like weather rather than like a king.


