Midnight, Texas Season 1 Episode 1 "Pilot" Review

A powerful psychic on the run decides to hide out in the small town of Midnight, Texas and discovers the community is a mysterious safe haven for outsiders with secrets - both supernatural and human.

This was a really great first episode that didn't fully cover a lot but it did a great job of introducing a lot of the main characters. It was really interesting to see how each of these main charterers had secrets and reasons of why they came to Midnight and I kind of can't wait to see more of these characters and find out more about them. I find it kind of weird how a lot of the supernatural people say and try and hide who they truly are but are kind of bad at it because of everyone in town kind of knows. having this murder take place along with introducing the characters was kind of weird I think it would have been a lot better if this episode was just dedicated to introductions and ended with the murder for the second episode to pick up on. Instead, this episode just felt like to different stories trying to fit together. The ending was really great with the towns people kind of going to war with the outsiders and watching Fiji crush the police car with her powers was so cool. And just overall there wasn't much to this first episode but it was still really great and I can't wait to see what will happen next. 

Will Season 1 Episode 4 "Brave New World" Review

Marlowe introduces Will to the decadent elite of London, but things take a macabre turn; Alice becomes disillusioned; Will must fight for all he holds dear.

This was a really entertaining and great episode that had some really fun moments to it and I'm so curious to see how the story will progress. Again I really enjoyed all the hints towards some of the plays Will writes in the future like in this episode there were hints towards Romeo and Juliet as well as Hamlet, and the start of him writing his great Henry V play. All the back and forth between Alice and Will was a little annoying but understandable with Alice suppose to be getting married off. It was interesting to see a bit of the fame that Will has gained going to his head and seeing the struggle show up of can he keep his theater friends as he continues to grow in popularity. Then the party scene and Will going to this back meeting with Marlowe were great to see dealing with things similar to in Hamlet and seeing a ghost from his past that have to deal with him straying from his faith. It was also interesting to again see Marlowe struggling to find ideas and him going through a lot of different measures to find some sort of guidance. The ending was so amazing with Topcliffe showing up and asking Will to an anti-catholic play to give to the public. Just ending this episode on Will in a panic for trying to decide what to do was so great. and just overall this was a really amazing and fun episode to watch. 

Will Season 1 Episode 3 "The Two Gentlemen" Review

Will has an epiphany that could bring him success, yet he needs Alice's help. Meanwhile, a magnetic fugitive from Will's past comes forth with a dangerous obligation.

This was a really great and fun episode that was so interesting to watch everything play out. I really liked watching Will struggle with having a script that no one thought was good and was willing to work with. I did really like the scenes with Will and Alice working on the script and making it better to where The Theater is actually willing to put on the show. I also liked the moment where Alice's father told Will to stay away from Alice because he is a married man and she is a single woman looking for a husband but in the end that didn't really work out. The reunion between Will and his cousin was great to see his cousin finally playing a much more significant roll in an episode. The ending where Will is given all these Catholic documents by his cousin to give to the queen pleading for religious freedom is an interesting storyline that I can't wait to see how all that will play out and if Will will actually follow through with those planes and live up to the Catholic side of his life. The scenes with Marlowe were great with him struggling to write a new play and kinds of trying to find any kind of inspiration and just kind of showing that even the best have bad moments. And then the scene where Marlowe actually goes against his work as a spy for the queen and instead actually saves some Catholics from being captured including Will's cousin was really great. Then the moments with Richard were interesting to finally see this character as more than just a bad actor by giving him some personality and giving him some scenes that are just for him and don't involve Will were really kind of nice to see. And just overall this was a really great and entertaining episode and I can't wait to see what they will do next. 

Will Season 1 Episode 2 "Cowards Die Many Times" Review

Wracked with guilt over Baxter's arrest, Will confesses to the rebellious Alice. The theatre is threatened when a rival tries to lure the crowd-pleasing actor, Kemp, away.

This was a really interesting episode that didn't have a bunch to it but it still did a great job of expanding on the story more. It was very fun and interesting how they had all these Romeo and Juliet references throughout this episode with some of the things Will would say at certain moments. The moments of Baxter getting tortured were interesting to see especially with how it all ended with the churches saying that Baxter died of shame rather than that they tortured him to death. All the interactions between Will and Marlowe were really interesting to see how those two creative minds are similar and different. And I did like the moments with Will going around trying to find a way to keep all the actors around and gave them a speech of what he could do for them as their writer. But with that overall there wasn't much to this episode it had some fun and great moments but it was a pretty boring episode. 

Will Season 1 Episode 1 "The Play's the Thing" Review

During a time of religious turmoil in England, Will Shakespeare arrives in London from the small town of Stratford with little more than a dream and a treasonous letter.

This was a really great first episode that actually really made me surprised with what they chose to do with the story of Will Shakespeare. Because I thought this series was going to be very fanciful kind of like Shakespeare In Love, but it is not it is rather written very much in truth with some fictional elements added in to fill in the gaps. I really liked how they decided to show London as this overcrowded city full of tons of people that you really can't trust. Then I also really love that they didn't just start off showing Will as this major success of a writer from his first play but rather over this whole series they will have him crafting his writing style to the perfection level we know him for. The introduction of each of the sort of main players in Will's life was great because all of them so far have been done really well. Then I loved all the moments with Will having to deal with the actors and kind of learning that they don't always have the same skill levels and willingness to follow the script. Then all the moments with the Catholic hunting was very interesting but also possibly accurate because fully knows what happened to a Catholic once they were taken away by the Queen's church all they know is that is that some of the people took the interrogation a bit too far. So showing all that graphic material was necessary I feel to show everything accurately and show what Will might have to put up with is he is ever outed as a Catholic. And the ending where Will is spared from being outed as a Catholic by another play writer was an interesting way to end the episode because this other writer saw greatness in Will. And just overall this was a really great first episode and I'm curious to see where they might go from here.