chilling and terrifying…i cried even tho he’s not my fav. 

artistically, i think it did well in that we see the truth, in the same way he does when he’s on the scaffold– that he did beyond what almost any other adviser did to make himself indispensable to henry viii, and that he was being dispensed of anyway…risen farther than anyone could have ever imagined, and fallen even farther than he’d risen. 

wish it’d been a bit more accurate, tho (altho they did include his letter which was nice), such as including this:

On the morning of the 28 July 1540, according to Foxe, Cromwell called for his breakfast, and, after ‘cheerfully eating the same’, he set out for the scaffold. On the way he met Lord Hungerford…looking ‘heavy and doleful’. Cromwell, still cheerful, bid him take heart and not fear. ‘For if you repent and be heartily sorry for what you have done, there is for you mercy enough with the Lord, who for Christ’s sake will forgive you; and therefore be not dismayed. And though the breakfast which we are going to be sharp, yet trusting to the mercy of the Lord, we shall have a joyful dinner.’