This miniseries started out with an odd moment for me (and only me, I expect). The camera panned early in the first scene to an actor I thought was Mark Rylance, a great actor who actually played Cromwell in another version of this historical period: Wolf Hall. I thought how neat it was to find him a role in this version. But it wasn’t him after all. That would have been an odd touch. But never mind.

I think Jodie Turner-Smith does a credible job as Anne Boleyn, at least when she is speaking. What I mean is that there were a couple of times when the camera lingered when she wasn’t speaking,... read the rest.