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Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine Make Irreverently Erotic Starz Drama ‘Mary & George’ a Rollicking Family Affair: TV Review
Starz drama 'Mary & George' stars Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine as a mother and son scheming their way into the court of King James I.
The tale of how the title characters ( Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine) enmeshed themselves in the court of King James I (Tony Curran) through George’s seduction is intricate enough on its own, packing a dizzying array of alliances, betrayals, breakups and reconciliations into seven 50-minute episodes. The irreverent period piece (“Dickinson,” “Our Flag Means Death”) has flourished in recent years, but “Mary & George” most resembles the 2018 Yorgos Lanthimos movie “The Favourite,” another account of an English monarch’s same-sex attraction with an equally jaundiced view of human nature. When George arrives in France, he walks right into an active orgy; when Mary conspires to marry off her mentally incapacitated eldest son John (Tom Victor) for the dowry, she has the bride-to-be seized with an armed crew of bandits.
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