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Upstart Crow: “The Most Unkindest Cut of All”

This week's episode satirized Shakespeare's attempt to write a play about Julius Caesar -- oddly enough, the one Shakespearean play that my middle brother can quote from -- only to take time out for the obligatory political joke/message, which this week alluded to the various benefits Britons received from the Roman Empire. That's right. Almost two thousand years after Queen Boudica led a rebellion against the Romans, it has now become fashionable for political progressives like showrunner Ben Elton to lament the good old days of the Roman Empire. We, indeed, do live in interesting times.

What's next, I wonder? A comedy lamenting the failure of the Spanish Armada? Or a sitcom describing how the British in general would have been a lot better off had Napoleon won at Waterloo? I suppose from a would-be writer's pov, I should consider it a good thing to see that not all the foolishness is concentrated on the pro-Brexit side of the political aisle but still...