Upstart Crow

[Clawdy]

The last one in the series tonight. I started off watching it, smiling as usual - it's one of the few comedies that really works for me. At the end I was sobbing. So moving, and so unexpected.

Me too, all the more moving for being unexpected, but true I gather.

So sad.

Very sad. I knew Hamnet had died in childhood so I wondered if they would cover it. It was painfully sad.

I wonder if that will be the end of if it will return for more and now that ending will affect the tone when/if it does.

I think that is the second time this series has caught my breath. Beautiful. And made me feel bad for wallowing in the empty space at our table when DD is only away at uni and will be home in a few weeks. Fabulous writing, from the “pampered lovey kisseys” to Hamlet.

Totally agree! The writing has been particularly sharp this series, but that ending was just so personal - particularly with the dedication at the end. Super show!

I loved it and I too was sobbing at the end of tonight’s episode.

I grew up in Stratford and lived literally round the corner from Anne Hathaway’s cottage. So sad that Hamnet died so young (as did many unfortunately back then).

Very sad episode. The writing on this is brilliant.

I turned on the last five minutes and sobbed immediately. I will have to watch properly. Brilliant

I wondered what they would do about poor Hamnet. TBH, I didn't think they would cover it. Very moving ending with his lines beginning 'Grief fills the room up of my absent child'.

I have enjoyed this series, and particularly liked Kate, Susanna and Robert Greene? is it?, Shakespeare's enemy, the one who first called him 'upstart crow' with his over enunciated dialogue.

Not got around to it yet (it's in the ever-growing queue)

Is it similar to the last part of "Blackadder Goes Forth" (one of Ben Eltons masterpieces IMHO ...) ?

DG it is being compared to the Blackadder episode. Loved them both, but the end of last night's was, for me anyway, even more poignant and sad.Those beautiful lines at the end.......

Still got 4 more episodes to go, but looking forward to it.

Makes "The Wright Way" even more inexplicable, really ?

Yes, Ben obviously lost his way there!