mary and george
second son
season 1
episode 1
Editor's rating
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Starz has finally emerged from Philippa Gregory's dense forest of historical nonsense to give us a solid period drama.while mary & george and snake queenI quite satisfied with them. This show is fun.I thought it was going to be a Stuart-esque sex capade, but it wasn't. do not have That's true, but the writing is sharp and interesting, Veep– Without being too uncomfortable. (I love it.)
All I can say right now is that both this show and the compilation have a huge warning against attempted suicide. It happens multiple times in the show, and both times it's downplayed by Julianne Moore's character, so be warned if that doesn't work.
Starting from 1592! When Mary Villiers (Moore) gives birth, the servants immediately drop the baby. Mary tells her baby George that she is her second son and will inherit nothing of human value. She also refused to let them cut the umbilical cord, so he's literally just stuck with her for how long. Foreshadowing!
Fast forward to 1612 and George is 19 years old. He commits suicide by hanging himself in the forest, but Mary comes to him and cuts him down and says, “Good morning, George.” This seems like a normal situation that she takes slowly. George has a lot of emotions, but Mary has a lot of ambitions and she sends her son, who is troubled by her emotions, from place to place. Where he's not banging his maid, because that's what he's mainly doing now. He says that he and his maid Jenny are in love and that he will always be with her. Mary tells him: It's not one way of doing things. ” (I really like that.)
I imagine that having George as a son must have been similar to having a son who was a Romantic era poet. The fact that Mary can make him do anything except lie down in a field of daisies is amazing. George is very upset because he has to go to France to become a gentleman and Jenny is not there. During this discussion, Mary says: “If I were a man and looked like you, I would rule this earth.” And I believe her. Can this summary be simply Mary's words? perhaps. Also, thankfully, they're still casting Julianne Moore. Remember when Bette Davis ran an ad shortly after that? What happened to Baby Jane? Are you looking for a job? She was 54 years old when that movie was released. Moore is currently 63 years old. wonderful.
George's father died, but no one was sad because he was a terrible person. He was angry that he had “promoted” Mary from her position as her servant, and that she then gave him her intellectually disabled eldest son. His son, John, Lovely And I really like giraffes. Again, no one mourns the death of this man. To really cap off his own awfulness, he leaves Mary and her children with nothing and even leaves her house to a cousin to get rid of her debts. Therefore, her only option is to remarry. It's the 1600s, right? But even fairly recently? So Mary is wandering around two weeks later wearing a wonderful hat with pheasant feathers and donkey ears. She's coming to the Jacobean party! She's all wearing animal-related costumes. I don't know why Mary combined pheasant and donkey, but I'm not complaining. (Perfect.) She introduces herself to Sir Thomas Compton as his next wife. It was a bold move, but it worked.
Now that Mary has the money, George leaves for France! In France he met Jean. When I looked it up, I thought he was “John,” but IMDB says it's “Jean,” so I'll go with that. Jean is the following character. Let me show you the ways of the world, innocent one., that's what happens. George also learns to fence, dance, and hit guys. During all of this, we got extensive Full Frontal scenes from some very random guys. I don't know if he'll show up again, but probably not. Great, he does a great job casually standing there with everything hanging out. This is a good step forward for George as well. Until now, he'd just been sitting in the stairwell playing his recorder.
While George is learning the ways of French orgies, Mary is trying to win him over at the court of James I. As she did to him, he says, “You're worried that he has one less penis and he has two too many boobs.” There is pure poetry there. Mary is eager to meet the King in person, but his favorite, the Earl of Somerset, keeps saying that James is difficult or doesn't want to interact with people. Mary finally wanders through the hallways at night, and she wanders near the king's chambers, where she encounters a shirtless Somerset, and finally she encounters the king.He's that Vincent van Gogh. Doctor Who episode! He and Somerset flirt in front of Mary. And look. Opinions differ as to whether James I is gay/bisexual/queer/straight, but if you watch this show, you have to listen to his infatuation with men. Also, I'm sorry, but if there were so many rumors in the early 17th century that, along with what he wrote in his letters, are still so debated today, I'd say, “Yeah, that's probably true. ” I'm going to say. My wife didn't know this, but she finds it very interesting that this is the famous King James in the King James Version of the Bible.
Mary finds an ally in James' inner circle who gives George an opportunity to meet James. Everyone around George is very confident in his handsomeness. Upon his return from France, he is momentarily confident, but then he is given the opportunity to serve the king at dinner, and when his fellow waiter trips him, George punches the man in the face multiple times. Somerset attempts to cut off George's hand as he fights in front of the King (yes, I get it, sure), but James intervenes. Also: George, you just went to France to learn how to be a gentleman, and when you get back you immediately jump on men? I mean, yes, it was embarrassing when you fell and spilled food everywhere, and yes, Somerset and his wife laughed at you, but nevertheless. Perhaps he once poured all his emotions into a recorder, but now he has no way to vent.
At Mary's house, George sneaks into her room and takes a knife from her drawer. He thinks there is a knife in the kitchen, but perhaps he wants Mary to know he took it. When she went outside, she found George sitting against a tree, threatening to slit her wrists. She taught him a better way. Again, pay attention to all of this. When George tells her about what happened and how he feels he has brought shame on her family, Mary says that they faced the world together and that from the first time she held George, she had loved him. She says she was planning for it.
I wonder how long it took her to cut the umbilical cord. Also, the cord is long so it can be a pain. Anyway, she tells George that James saw him and stopped because he is interested in Somerset. Now she must find a way to get George back in front of James. Will it be successful? Yes, it will happen historically. However, you will definitely have a fun journey along the way.
