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<i>Will</i> Is Flagrantly Silly, Glam-Rock Shakespeare

The new TNT show reinvents 16th-century London as a bacchanal of sex, drugs, and steampunk.
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The question, “What if William Shakespeare were actually really good looking?” has already been definitively answered by the Oscar-winning 1998 movie So , debuting on TNT Monday night, goes a few steps further. What if Shakespeare were actually really good looking a secret Catholic spy a prototypical glam-rock icon suffering from PTSD induced by watching his uncle get publicly disemboweled? And what if all this were happening in a kind of hallucinogenic steampunk Baz

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