Mary & George shines when it embraces the salacious, soapy fun of its historical premise, but stumbles when things get too serious.
They say history is often stranger than fiction and, sometimes, they really are right. The premise of the new Starz historical dramais bonkers enough—a woman of noble birth grooms her wildly attractive son to catch the eye of the notoriously lascivious seventeenth-century English king—that it almost sounds made up.
The Starz series takes this—let’s face it, fairly tawdry—historical premise and runs with it, leaning into the scandalously entertaining idea that Mary herself , basically outfitted her stupidly handsome son as a honeypot to trap a king, and reaped a ton of personal rewards in the process.
For the most part, Galitzine isn’t asked to do much beyond look handsome, though his deft expression of George’s growing self-assurance and confidence in his ability to play the proverbial game of thrones is interesting enough to make you wish we got to see more of how his relationship with the king changed toward the end of his life. But it is Curran, a man who has done a lot of great character work on shows ranging from, who almost steals the show out from under both its titular leads.
To its credit, the show is both frank and forthcoming about Mary’s seemingly bottomless greed and ambition. We see her repeatedly express incredulity that she should ever be asked to accept less than the men around her do, and as her son piles up a seemingly endless string of titles and riches for no reason other than his good looks and sexual prowess, it’s hard to argue she’s wrong.
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