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.
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