Mary and George
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Tens across the board for this show!
Hewas really into witches?
But other than that, no idea.
We start out with Mary Villiers going to a brothel to meet Jamess English guy, Sir David Graham.
Mary meets a sex worker named Sandie, and they have some good chemistry.
Also, random hats off to Julianne Moore for kissing ladies onscreenwellbefore everyone else was doing it.
I see you, JM.
I again cannot believe this woman is in her 60s; put her in the Louvre.
Mary and David discuss how to get George in front of the king so George can replace Somerset.
So now we know that David fails at king-seduction ideas.
Mary is still interested in her other children, but mainly just George and John.
Its the 17th century, and they dont have a lot of resources for John!
Mary is determined to get him married, though, to attempt to ensure his future.
U.K. treasure Nicola Walker plays Lady Hatton, and now she is my second-favorite character after Mary.
Shes blunt about the dinners purpose and is aghast that Mary thinks John is good enough for Frances.
She reads every single person at the table and leaves.Its like watching Bianca Del Rio, but meaner.
I love Elizabeth, but thats so good.
Mary and George sit down and figure out how hes going to bang the king.
George is sure that if James sees him dancing, its all over.
We later see George dance, so …
So they get George dancing in front of James as part of a masque.
Hes just a super hetero king with his handsome young male friends bathing him; nothing different about that.
Look out, George!
We need to continue to watch your handsomeness!
Although, to be fair, Somerset is also very handsome.
They can both stick around.
(JK, no, they cant.)
Meanwhile, Mary is banging Sandie, the sex worker!
Instead, Sandie just fingers Mary.
(Can you imagine showing up for work and your job is you have to fake-finger Julianne Moore?
What a wild day.)
Mary isfollowedto Sandies by Sir Davids henchman.
The henchman tortures the guy from the last episode, who is her … accountant?
That cant be right.
Anyway, the maybe-accountant tells the henchman about Marys real past and how she isnt part of the nobility.
So now Mary has to deal with that whole mess.
Meanwhile, Somerset is trying to murder George during a royal hunt.
Period dramas now love a CGI stag.
Ive seen so many.
of killing the not-real stag.
Mary and Sandie feed Sir David and his henchman poisoned prunes (okay!
), and he calls Mary a perfidious harlot, which is fun.
Sir David dies, and Mary and Sandie think both the men are dead.
But the henchman lives!
Did we already see him and I missed it?
So many of these men have little pointy beards!
James comes to see George in his tent, and they have sex for the first time.
James tells George, Bury me, and its like,powerdynamics.
