7.659 minSeason 1 • Episode 3
LatestOn the eve of the 5th of November, Catesby, Fawkes and the plotters load the tunnels below Parliament with barrels of gunpowder. Across the city, Father Garnet is under pressure to reveal Catesby's plot for the good of the Catholic faith. Will the priest be the one to betray Catesby at the eleventh hour?
London, 1605. Robert Catesby, a 33-year old Warwickshire gentleman, devises a plot to blow up Parliament and kill the King.
Acting
Mark Gatiss slithers as Cecil; pure political villainy.
Production
BBC money on costumes—those ruffs are *chef's kiss*.
Practical Effects
They actually built the Parliament cellar. Commitment!
Kit Harington
Robert Catesby
Mark Gatiss
Sir Robert Cecil
Edward Holcroft
Thomas Wintour
Tom Cullen
Guy Fawkes
Peter Mullan
Father Henry Garnet
Liv Tyler
Anne Vaux
Derek Riddell
King James I
Shaun Dooley
Sir William Wade
Robert Emms
Father John Gerard
Luke Neal
Jack Wright
David Bamber
Lord Northumberland
Simon Kunz
Lord Howard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kit Harington is directly descended from Robert Catesby on his mother's side. He also co-created this series. Nepotism? No—ancestry-bias.
This aired right after HBO's Gunpowder tease in Game of Thrones ('wildfire under the Sept'). Harington basically cornered the market on explosive religious fanaticism.
GB
