ShakespeaRe-told's "Macbeth" was for me about something very different than Shakespeare's "Macbeth" . I read the play as one about power, and what trying to get it does to someone. Macbeth is getting used to murder because that's what is needed to keep him in power and he gets less and less remorce about it. But in the episode I see it as much more personal story, not about getting power but about crime and how one leads to another, how it destroys the criminal. It's even doubled within the episode - he doesn't hire a murderer he blackmails his employee who he knows was in prison to do it, and the guy, after agreeing to kill Banqo (and that only because Macbeth presents him as a threat) is blackmailed into killing MacDuff's family. The fact that it happens in a restaurant also adds to it - Macbeth might have killed Duncan to get the restaurant but the rest of murders, including his own, are personal.