The 2003 BBC two-parter *Byron*, starring Johnny Lee Miller as the eponymous poet, arrives burdened by the weight of its subject’s mythos. George Gordon Byron – aristocrat, revolutionary, literary titan, and self-appointed "bad boy" of Regency England – demands a treatment as complex and incendiary as his life. While the miniseries, written by Nick Dear, boasts the BBC’s customary production polish and Miller’s magn…More