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Critic Reviews
May 30, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Despite the vast population of figures from the play, this isn’t a show aimed at Shakespeare scholars; a mere passing acquaintance with “Romeo and Juliet” will do. It’s also not “Shakespeare in Love”; it won’t dazzle you with quick references, wittily deployed Shakespearean lines and so on.
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May 30, 2017
May 30, 2017
Season 1 Review:
All the familiar boxes are checked off, including the miscommunications that inevitably lead to Romeo and Juliet's deaths, but these sequences are so often scattershot, sloppily edited, or too tightly framed to make any kind of emotional impression. Buried somewhere in the middle of this is the show's actual premise.
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May 30, 2017
Season 1 Review:
Without some Cliff’s Notes handy, the first half of Monday’s pilot is a muddle as to who’s a Montague and who’s a Capulet. Once Romeo and Juliet die (about halfway through the pilot), Still Star-Crossed improves as the focus shifts to the politics of their deaths and those left behind.
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May 26, 2017
Season 1 Review:
What Star-Crossed can't do, at least in the early going, is provide much incentive to care about its characters, despite the appealing Anthony Head and Zuleikha Robinson as Lord and Lady Capulet, Grant Bowler as Lord Montague and Lashana Lynch as Juliet's cousin Rosalind, who gets caught in the middle of a plan to save the fair city of Verona.
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May 30, 2017
Season 1 Review:
While a tad short of The White Princess, the costuming and pageantry of the show is exemplary (even if some of those castle shots look lifted from Once Upon A Time), so it’s lovely to look at, but hard to follow. And harder still for it to hold your attention. Further episodes will need to amp up something--romance, intrigue, trauma--to grab the audience.
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May 30, 2017
Season 1 Review:
The mix-and-match dialogue has the opposite effect of helping non-theater majors assimilate. It’s awkward and distracts from an already hard-to-follow story. The performances here are also often buried under the dense narrative, not to mention way too many perfunctory sword fights.
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