Upstart Crow S3 is even better than S1 and S2! Though the three Christmas specials are a bit lame, if you asked me. Besides, these Christmas episodes emphasize Shakespeare's status as part of the so-called notorious English national identity. "See, that's how we English do the Christmas". It almost says. That's why they did a Dickens x Shakespeare crossover because Dickens is another jigsaw of this national identity. This identity is not inclusive to audiences abroad and it cannot reflect well Shakespeare's timelessness nor the Renaissance spirit. You do know that in Shakespeare's time Christmas is not a thing, don't you? They made such a contrived effort, just to claim/reclaim Shakespeare as a token of their so-called "Englishness". Urgh. I would feign if I said I liked it.