Am I Missing Something?

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

I do love Shakespeare, he is the best thing happened to English language/literature for a thousand of years! Show is outstanding and actors are fantastic. Unfortunately for the show, it is way too gay for the audience:(((

The problem with Will is not, strictly speaking, that it's historically inaccurate. The problem is an inconsistency of tone that comes out of a particular approach to historical inaccuracy. The series wants to both have an edgy modern quality and give a fun sense of Shakespeare's time, and that's a straddle it cannot hold. This is why the debates here between those complaining about historical inaccuracy and those mocking people for complaining about historical inaccuracy are beside the point. Monty Python and the Holy Grail was historically inaccurate, but it created a consistent world using pieces of history and fantasy and modernity. Same with Xena Warrior Princess. But Will just feels like a hodgepodge of ideas that are thematically incompatible, and it lacks the flair necessary to pull it off.The end result is not a show that fails because of inaccuracies, but rather a series that is just kind of annoying.

I love this series. You have to understand this is entertainment and not a history lesson and never claims to be. It is in a sense theater.I have to laugh about those claiming it's not 'historically accurate' Were all the Bards plays? NO. First little to nothing is known about the bards personal life, and practically nothing about his early life as a play write other than his plays. So what TV/Movie or Play would be 'accurate'?The depiction of London of the times is admittedly not historically accurate but the show does a good job of translating the atmosphere of the early London theater, it's environs, politics and prejudices of the time via the mash up of more modern music and costumes and themes of the episodes to appeal to modern sensibilities.All in all I think the Bard would approve of the theatrical license this show takes with his life and times to entertain. That's what he did in his plays and that's what most theater does (including presentations on TV and movies).

This show has gotten a lot of hate that it does not deserve. The actors are very charming and Laurie Davidson does an especially good job at showing Will as a troubled man who wants to achieve success but struggles with his personal demons. It also manages to deliver a good message about religious tolerance without making it preachy or annoying. The main problem is that the show struggles with keeping a consistent tone, going from dramatic to cheerful without much transition. While this show may not be historically accurate it is compelling and when it wants to be dramatic it does it very well.