I'm on episode 4, want to give this production a chance. It's obviously carefully crafted, with good production values and ambitious historic filmmaking deserves a shot. So far the writing is intriguing but I wish Arthur Hughes was more up to the task of realizing Shardlake beyond either sneering or looking pensively off into the distance as he self-reflects. To his credit, he does well conveying the struggles of someone with a physical disability in a time when there was little tolerance for such differences - ironic because the excessive ethnic diversity casting, historically out of place, invokes no similar attention or commentary amidst a story set in Tudor England. I guess current thinking means that focusing on period discrimination as it relates to disability is ok, but we'll just overlook racial injustice of the time and colorwash the cast because, you know, Bridgerton. Anthony Boyle is good as Cromwell's man. The rest of the cast mostly whispers and hisses while trading furtive glances.
Review of Shardlake
