Wolf Hall is back on our screens, but can season two match the first instalment of the BBC’s phenomenally successful Hilary Mantel adaptation?

Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light picks up a few days after the execution of Anne Boleyn, as the King marries her lady-in-waiting, Jane Seymour. Mantel’s novel focuses on Cromwell’s final four years, as he goes from Lord Privy Seal and the King’s right-hand-man to putting out fires everywhere, dealing with a paranoid and utterly capricious Henry. ‘There is no small thrill in watching Rylance, at last, go through the gears,’ says The Telegraph. ‘In the first series, his Cromwell was a…