diff --git a/notmuch/src/lib.rs b/notmuch/src/lib.rs
index 051877e..5dea617 100644
--- a/notmuch/src/lib.rs
+++ b/notmuch/src/lib.rs
@@ -479,7 +479,13 @@ impl Notmuch {
     }
 
     pub fn show(&self, query: &str) -> Result<ThreadSet, NotmuchError> {
-        let slice = self.run_notmuch(["show", "--format=json", query])?;
+        let slice = self.run_notmuch([
+            "show",
+            "--include-html=true",
+            "--entire-thread=true",
+            "--format=json",
+            query,
+        ])?;
         // Notmuch returns JSON with invalid unicode.  So we lossy convert it to a string here an
         // use that for parsing in rust.
         let s = String::from_utf8_lossy(&slice);