MARY & GEORGE
DRAMA / HISTORY
UNITED KINGDOM
2024-now
MARY & GEORGE is a British historical drama television miniseries created by D. C. Moore and directed by Oliver Hermanus, Alex Winckler and Florian Cossen, based on Benjamin Woolley's non-fiction book The King's Assassin (2017). MARY & GEORGE consists of 7 episodes of 1 hour.
STORY: The Countess of Buckingham (Julianne Moore) who molded her son George (Nicholas Galitzine) to seduce King James I (Tony Curran) and become his all-powerful lover, through intrigue, becoming richer, more titled and influential than England has ever seen.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: As George (Nicholas Galitzine) grows into an attractive, capable young bisexual, Mary does what any good mother would do: she exploits her son's hotness by making him seduce the King James (Tony Curran), a raging homosexual whose bed is home to a who's who of young gay hotties circa 1612. George's new lover Peter Carr (Dylan Brady), cousin of the Earl of Somerset, continues to cause a rift between him and the king. When the king dismisses George, he and Peter visit the remote Ruthven Castle, where Peter tells George of the king's first love, the late Lord Lennox. During an attempt to trap and murder George as revenge for the downfall of the Somersets, Peter is shot and killed by Kit. King James and George reconcile.
George Villiers (Nicholas Galitzine) & King James I (Tony Curran) & Peter Carr (Dylan Brady)
NICHOLAS GALITZINE (2024) September 29, 1994, London, UK
TONY CURRAN (2024) December 13, 1969, Glasgow, UK
DYLAN BRADY (2024) September 23, 1998, Derby, UK
SPECIAL: It's curious that the few straight characters who do exist in this show are mostly fine with homosexuality, despite them all living in the not-so progressive 17th century. Like Bridgerton does with race, Mary & George imagines a world where queerness is far more tolerated than you'd expect for the time, which gives the gays a lot more space to be delightfully evil.
AWARDS: ‘MARY & GEORGE’ none
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