Heartwarming / Upstart Crow

• Will pretending to Sue that he based Juliet on her. Suddenly her usual stroppy teen front disappears.
• Anne casually drops the Wham Line that she had never taken the "eye balm", she then casually assures that she has always loved Will.
• After beginning to teach at a local school, Susanna is genuinely concerned for a boy in her class that's treated horribly by the others. (He's depicted as having Down's Syndrome, as does his actor, Thomas Smith.) She ends up borrowing Will's "hath a Jew not eyes" speech, teaching it to the class by having the boy recite it. His performance earns him a bout of Stunned Silence from the class, before genuine applause, much to both Susanna and Will's pride and delight.
• After Hamnet's death, Will going along with Anne asking him to reassure her that they'll see him again, and giving her a lovely speech, in spite of the fact that he doesn't really believe it. When Sue points out to him that he doesn't think it's true, Will admits it, but then adds that in his experience, his wife is usually right and he's usually wrong.
• In a remarkable way, the climax to the 2020 lockdown episode. Will and Kate have spent the entire Bottle Episode by turns bonding and fighting about the utter tedium of being confined to the house during the plague. Towards the end, Kate expresses the hope that perhaps humanity will learn something positive from the experience. Will says it would be nice if they did, but that they probably won't, because they never do. Kate sits back and, recapitulating a lot of her remarks throughout, comes out with the incredibly bleak Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow soliloquy from Macbeth, just because that's how she feels about the whole experience. Will, as usual when someone else says something especially memorable, immediately perks up ("Hang on, hang the futtock on...") and writes it down, not only giving his play the speech it needs, but also recording for posterity one of the ultimate poetic expressions of the meaningless passage of time. After this, he's notably more cheerful, and so is she, and they join the Christmas carollers outside. An episode which was all about the soul-crushing tedium of lockdown ends up being about how that gets turned into great art.

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