6 Issues William Shakespeare Might Have with Still Star-Crossed

How do you make the soapiest play of all time prime for a summer guilty pleasure watch?

[...] Star-Crossed is the latest offering from the production company that created Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away with Murder.

The new ABC series keeps the setting, the time period and the characters of Shakespeare's most famous play, but it also makes some serious changes to the Bard's work of art to create an even more dramatic story of the aftermath of Romeo and Juliet's suicides.

While Still Star-Crossed could be just the thing this summer to tide you over until Scandal's final season, there are a few key things we think old Billy Shakes would pick a bone with in this sequel.

Dust of your freshman year English copy of this lovers' tale and let's dig in to Shakespeare's (most likely) gripes.

In the OG version of this story, Juliet (Clare Rugaard) wakes up from her fake slumber to realize Romeo (Lucien Laviscount) missed the memo that she's not really dead and poisoned himself.

[...] Star-Crossed mostly sticks to that game plan, except Juliet just drinks the rest of Romeo's poison instead of stabbing herself.

[...] at the end of the first episode, she is the Capulets' choice to marry Benvolio Montague (Wade Briggs) in hopes of uniting the families and having one powerhouse union to control Verona.

Since Rosaline was aligned with the Montagues in Shakespeare's version, her marrying Benvolio wouldn't have been scandalous or even unexpected -- now it's the crux of Still Star-Crossed's entire plot.

In Still Star-Crossed, the original prince dies in the first episode, leaving his son Escalus and his ambitious daughter Isabella (Medalion Rahimi) in charge of keeping the Capulets and Montagues at peace.

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