Hughes and Boyle make a good double act that feels vibrant and alive, not dusty and far away.
Thats his conscience as a good, truth-seeking man in a cut-throat world.
Its 1536, mid-Reformation and two years after the Act of Supremacy broke England from Rome.
For him, that justification must also be the truth.
For Cromwell, the truth is immaterial as long as the monastery falls.
Neither has this sinister, satisfying adaptation wasted any of the novels screen potential.
Shardlakeis streaming now exclusively onDisney+in the UK, and onHuluin the US.
Rating:
4 out of 5
