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Is it the singer or the song, the dancer or the dance? I’m talking about performances in television dramas that steal the show, dazzling turns that may elevate the quality of a drama from excellent to exceptional.

Think of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell in BBC Two’s Wolf Hall, a simmering, measured character ...