History YMMV / TheHollowCrown

* QuestionableCasting: Casting Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, and he naturally has an unusual look to him, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him... This irony may be seen as in-universe as well - right after this scene follows the one where he manages to woo Anne over the coffin of the dead king, to even his own amazement.

* WTHCastingAgency: Casting Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, and he naturally has an unusual look to him, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him... This irony may be seen as in-universe as well - right after this scene follows the one where he manages to woo Anne over the coffin of the dead king, to even his own amazement.

* WTHCastingAgency: Casting Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, and he naturally has an unusual look to him, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him...

* DracoInLeatherPants: Bordering on an InUniverse example and perhaps somewhat inevitable [[Creator/BenedictCumberbatch given the casting]], but Richard III certainly qualifies. Regardless of history, in the plays the series is based on, Richard is undoubtedly a villain (and even admits as such) but the series portrays him as being practically forced into it and it's not unknown for viewers to try and make even more excuses for the terrible things he does.

-->- ''"I muse why she's at liberty."''

* NarmCharm: The fact that Margaret, after her defeat at Tewkesbury, is apparently allowed to just wander around the palace making cursed prophecies. It adds a quite unintentional note of absurdity to the events of ''Richard III''.

* NarmCharm: The fact that Margaret, after her defeat at Tewkesbury, is apparently allowed to just wander around the palace making cursed prophecies.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: The extemporised play between Hal and Falstaff at the Boar's Head is one of the great comic scenes--made even better when Tom Hiddleston takes the role of the king and does his best Jeremy Irons.

* ValuesDissonance: In Shakespeare's time, physical disabilities were considered a sign of a person's evil and/or punishment from God (not that writers don't still [[EvilCripple use this trope]], but the attitude isn't ''quite'' so accepted nowadays). That can make it jarring to watch even Henry VI insulting Richard solely on the basis of his disability, rather than his actions.

* FunnyMoments: The extemporised play between Hal and Falstaff at the Boar's Head is one of the great comic scenes--made even better when Tom Hiddleston takes the role of the king and does his best Jeremy Irons.

* GrowingTheBeard: Literally, in Henry V's case. Tom Hiddleston goes from clean shaven as Prince Hal in ''Henry VI'' Parts 1 & 2 to sporting a beard for ''Henry V''.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: We never see Falstaff again after the newly-crowned Henry V publicly sheds all association with him at the end of ''Theatre/HenryIVPart2''. He dies offscreen at the start of ''Theatre/HenryV'' and his reaction to Henry's desertion is only exposited through the minor characters of his friends. (This also occurred in reality: Falstaff proved so popular with audiences that Shakespeare ended up writing TheMerryWivesOfWindsor in which Falstaff is a major character).

* WTHCastingAgency: Casting Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him...

* WTHCastingAgency: Casting Creator/BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him...

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: We never see Falstaff again after the newly-crowned Henry V publicly sheds all association with him at the end of ''HenryIVPart2''. He dies offscreen at the start of ''Theatre/HenryV'' and his reaction to Henry's desertion is only exposited through the minor characters of his friends. (This also occurred in reality: Falstaff proved so popular with audiences that Shakespeare ended up writing TheMerryWivesOfWindsor in which Falstaff is a major character).

* JustHereForGodzilla: Considering both series have AllStarCasts, there is a considerable portion of the audience who only tuned in for that reason.

* WTHCastingAgency: Casting BenedictCumberbatch as a deformed and undesirable (a fact he is constantly lamenting) murderer... In fairness, they do their best to make him look bad, but it still comes off almost silly whenever Richard starts moaning about how no one would ever love him...

* BrokenBase: The existence of the 2016 continuation provoked this. Some people were happy that the Histories would be completed with the * Wars of the Roses cycle, others felt it was a needless extension of something that was close to perfect. The casting of said series then caused its own BrokenBase.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: We never see Falstaff again after the newly-crowned Henry V publicly sheds all association with him at the end of ''HenryIVPart2''. He dies offscreen at the start of ''HenryV'' and his reaction to Henry's desertion is only exposited through the minor characters of his friends. (This also occurred in reality: Falstaff proved so popular with audiences that Shakespeare ended up writing TheMerryWivesOfWindsor in which Falstaff is a major character).