article_snippet.sent: The audience is encouraged to support 'monster' Thomas Cromwell, played by Mark Rylance in the hit series, a damning review by the Catholic News Service in America said after the first episode was aired in the USA .
article_snippet.sent: a damning review by the Catholic News Service in America also slates the depiction of Catholic martyr Sir Thomas More, played by Anton Lesser in the show as an 'evidence-flouting caricature' that is 'sleazy, mean-spirited and just plain rude' A review for Catholic News Service, an agency of the U.S. Bishops’ Conference said that the show as an 'evidence-flouting caricature' that is encourages The audience to ‘root for the self-made commoner Thomas Cromwell’ when in fact Thomas Cromwell was a ‘monster’ who engineered a reign of terror and murdered anyone who stood in Thomas Cromwell way.
highlights_snippet.sent: Sir Thomas More as 'just plain rude'
  Audience encouraged to root for 'monster' Thomas Cromwell, review adds .
  