Mike Poulton’s adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel is a thrilling portrait of a brilliant manipulator navigating a high-stakes political landscape. Wolf Hall begins in England in 1527. King Henry VIII needs a male heir, and his anger grows as months pass without the divorce he craves. Into this volatile court enters the commoner Thomas Cromwell. Once a mercenary and now a master politician, he sets out to grant King Henry’s desire while methodically and ruthlessly pursuing his own reforming agenda.