Showing posts with label historical. Show all posts
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Monday, August 21, 2017

Will Season 1 Episode 7 "What Dreams May Come"


The theatre is jeopardized so Will enlists help from a beautiful and talented friend.

This was a really great and interesting episode that was so entertaining to watch and see how everything played out. And I really enjoyed that a big chunk of this episode was all about Will's creation of A Midsummer Night's Dream and all the different problems that came with it. And the story around the Presto in this episode was actually slightly more interesting to see him and making this connection between him and Will, by having them both have some sort of seeking for revenge and them working together on creating that. And the actual performance and everything around trying to gain this money to save the theater was really great and fun especially when Richard was confronted by the woman they're supposed to be wooing and he actually turned her down which was a complete change of character that I really enjoyed seeing that development in him. Then the moments with Marlowe in this episode we're actually really interesting and fun with everyone finally settling on the conclusion for him that one of his main problems is that he has no beliefs and no faith in anything so that's what's really preventing him from creating and believing and just all of what came out of that was really interesting and I'm very interested in seeing what they might do with this play that he's created about the devil and what problems that may come because the devil isn't supposed to be a character that is shown so I'm excited to see that. And overall this episode was so entertaining and so fun to watch and had a lot of really great moments to it.

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

Will Season 1 Episode 6 "Something Wicked This Way Comes" Review


Tensions rise as Will and Alice continue to collaborate, while Anne attempts to adjust to London life. Love forces Marlowe to confront his darkest fears. Presto is forced to confront true evil.

This was a really interesting episode that did feel kind of long and a bit boring but it did have some really great moments in it that were interesting to see. I was kind of cool to see Alice and Will trying to move on for one an other and find their own lives. With that, I liked the moments with Alice trying to be happy with her potential husband but that fiance knows the truth about her feelings. Then the scene where Will had to confront Alice to try and get her to stay away from him and he called her so many bad things because Alice's mother told him to was so sad and great. Then all the moments with Anne and the family trying to adjust to London had some really great moments and some really sad moments. How this episode ended for Anne and the family was really sad but also kind of nice because Anne told Will that she is proud of him and that he is a great writer which I think is something he needed to hear from her. Then with Marlowe, it was interesting to see this other side of him in this episode as he watched his love slip away from him. And Presto actually had a kind of interesting story around him even though I still feel it is really unnecessary for the bigger story plot going on. And just overall this was a really entertaining episode with some great moments but it wasn't super interesting. 

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

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. 

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

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.