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Originally Posted by Harrysmum   Yes, Jeanie - I stuck it out, but only because I thought I should....  Being a very British kind of a Brit!!! 
Our newspapers had a field day on it - "Could they not afford to put the lights on"....and even getting 'very personal' about Hilary Mantel.... 
Trouble is, most of us know the story/stories (the producers incorporated her second novel, too) and it all went a little bit of a combination of history v fiction...xxx |
Hehe - guess they are trying to be realistic. It
was dark without electricity and man-made light was a luxury back then. I cannot believe how people used to have to live in so much darkness!
Still, it's an interesting story about Henry, Wolsey, Cromwell, the Catherines, Boleyn. It's the little touches that help historical dramas along the way - the way Cromwell handles Tyndale's unbound, loose-leaf New Testament in English - surreptitiously delivered to him "packaged as something else", not able to know what he had in his hands -a Bible created for the common man who had some reading skills so he could read the Gospel in his own, understandable vernacular and help bring about such a huge revolution in the church and monarchy and change so many lives. Hope it doesn't stay this slow, though.