1.051 minSeason 1 • Episode 4
LatestCromwell's rule is ever more bloody and controversial, nobody feeling safe anymore amongst factions and treason, yet the Lord Protector achieves a monarchy in all but name. Lillburne is jailed for life without trial. Sexby resigns has colonel's commission on account of his war-wrecked hand. Plotting and discovered intrigues make many fatal victims, including Joliffe. Angelica survives everybody, alone but for Sexby's posthumous daughter.
The Devil's Whore is a four-part television drama serial produced by Company Pictures for Channel 4, broadcast from 19 November to 10 December 2008. As the English Civil War rages, when both politics and religion divide the nation, spirited aristocrat Angelica Fanshawe is drawn to the anti-monarchist cause. She tells the story as England dares to execute its king and search for an alternative means of government.
Acting
Riseborough burns down every scene she's in.
Costume
Puritan austerity vs. Cavalier excess, perfectly deployed.
Writing
Flannery makes 1640s polemics feel dangerously sexy.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Michael Fassbender filmed this between Hunger and Inglourious Basterds, in his 'intense period drama' era.
The series was controversial for romanticizing the Levellers; historians debated its political slant for months.
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