7.4/10262 votesLoading...#1 - Star Crossed Lovers
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 5/9/2016
Episode one sees Will struggle to find inspiration for Romeo while having to deal with an angry actor, a very annoying house-guest and his family’s not terribly helpful script suggestions.
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7.4/10204 votesLoading...#2 - The Play's the Thing
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 5/16/2016
Just when Will’s controversial new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth, it goes missing. As the finger of suspicion points to his best friend Marlowe, can Will come up with a way to recover his stolen masterpiece? Given its politically sensitive content, is he really wise to want it back?
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7.5/10170 votesLoading...#3 - The Apparel Proclaims The Man
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 5/23/2016
Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to a high-society party hosted by Lord Southampton, but is unsure what a poorly-educated country boy should wear to one of London's most upmarket events. The playwright's rival Sir Robert Greene offers him some fashion tips, but is it a double bluff, a triple bluff, or something even more fiendish?
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7.5/10114 votesLoading...#4 - Sigh No More
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/2018
When Kate stands in for Sue at the masked ball she accidentally sets off a chain of events that leaves Sue humiliated by the other local teenagers and Will needs to come up with a ruse to turn the tables on the bullies. Meanwhile in all the confusion Hamnet has gone missing.
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7.6/10171 votesLoading...#5 - Love is Not Love
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/30/2016
Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will the fair youth and the dark lady like them as much as he hopes? And is Anne likely to be impressed that her husband’s 154 hot new love poems don’t contain much about her?
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7.6/10150 votesLoading...#6 - The Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 6/13/2016
When Will's savings go missing, he is forced to make an unusual bargain with his rival. Kate's frustration with the lack of roles for women leads her to make a dramatic intervention.
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7.6/10144 votesLoading...#7 - The Green Eyed Monster
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2017
When a dashing African Prince comes to town, Will decides to befriend him.
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7.6/10136 votesLoading...#8 - I Did Adore a Twinkling Star
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/2017
Will has to write a romance set in an exotic foreign location Kate has fallen for Marlowe.
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7.6/10128 votesLoading...#9 - Food of Love
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/2017
Will Shakespeare has invented an amazing new dramatic form: the greatest hits musical.
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7.6/10144 votesLoading...#10 - Lord, What Fools These Mortals Be!
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 8/29/2018
Will needs inspiration for his new play A Midsummer Night's Dream. Meanwhile how can he get hold of some love potion, and where is Bottom going to put that stuffed donkey head?
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7.6/10141 votesLoading...#11 - If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed?
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 9/12/2018
London is full of anti-immigrant rioting. Will looks forward to an age when such sentiments are long-gone, but in the meantime he and the players plan to do their bit to help those worse off than themselves with a fund-raising charity gala night. “Inflated Pig's Bladder Day” is a triumph.
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7.7/10175 votesLoading...#12 - What Bloody Man is That?
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 6/6/2016
The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way, they meet three witches who have some surprising predictions to make about Will’s future, leading to a very serious case of house envy.
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7.7/10144 votesLoading...#13 - I Know Thee Not, Old Man
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2017
When his old teacher invites himself to stay, Will must confront some awful memories.
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7.7/10132 votesLoading...#14 - Wild Laughter in the Throat of Death
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/5/2018
Will Shakespeare has been working on his masterpiece. His friends tell him it's his greatest comedy yet, but Will insists that Hamlet isn't actually meant to be funny.
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7.7/10109 votesLoading...#15 - The Most Unkindest Cut of All
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 9/26/2018
Will's troupe plot against each other, but his defusing of the situation helps give him a better idea for his new play about Julius Caesar.
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7.8/10121 votesLoading...#16 - Beware My Sting!
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/2017
The women in Will's life are not impressed with his play about a strong woman humiliated.
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8.0/10136 votesLoading...#17 - Go On and I Will Follow
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/3/2018
As Will wrestles with temptation a bigger threat to his family lurks in the wings.
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8.1/10130 votesLoading...#18 - Sweet Sorrow
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2017
Will's finished Romeo and Juliet but now there's competition over who will play Juliet.
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The Worst Episodes of Upstart Crow
Every episode of Upstart Crow ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Upstart Crow!
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance...
Genres:ComedyDrama
Network:BBC Two
Worst Episodes Summary
"Star Crossed Lovers" is the worst rated episode of "Upstart Crow". It scored 7.4/10 based on 262 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 5/9/2016. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Play's the Thing".