Will Shakespeare is obviously the star of the story, but he makes some shady moves that aren’t exactly praiseworthy.
If his name wasn’t William Shakespeare and we didn’t know that he was the hero, we might not really want to root for him.
Where Will suffers, however, is the fact that there’s no one character who viewers are going to really want to root for based on his or her character.
Ewen Bremner is more than capable of selling sinister, but Topcliffe is rather one-note as he hunts down Catholics.
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