I'd never been very excited about watching this because I'd marked it down as a Hey Nonny Nonny–style Shakespeare adaptation, if you know what I mean, which I generally bounce off. But that was stupid because the only thing that really matters in any Shakespeare production in any medium is making the characters come alive, especially in those of the plays (which lbh is most of them) which have awkward plot contrivances.
And in those terms – despite ramping up…