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Series Details & Credits
| Starz | Release Date: April 5, 2024 |
Summary:
Mary Villiers (Julianne Moore) orchestrates the relationship between her son, George (Nicholas Galitzine) and King James I (Tony Curran) in the D.C. Moore historical drama based on Benjamin Woolley's non-fiction book The King's Assassin.
Creator:
DC Moore
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
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Air Date: May 3, 2024
Positive:
18
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
The Guardian
Mar 18, 2024
Season 1 Review:
The stakes increase with every episode as the family climbs higher up the rungs of the social and court ladder and the whole thing remains tremendous. Propulsive but grounded. Plotty but never messy. Exuberant and sumptuous without becoming bananas (The Tudors, I love you, but come on). And that rarest treat: bitingly witty, just when it needs to be.
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Apr 3, 2024
The Observer (UK)
Sep 10, 2024
The Playlist
Mar 29, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Even if it might be tricky to remember when George fell ill with the pox or any individual scene of the young man sleeping his way to the top of the ladder, there’s still enough to consider continuing the journey into the remainder of the season; it’s a testament to all involved and their ability to make a compelling watch out of something centuries in the past draped with a peculiar contemporary feel. It’s imperfect, and yet somehow works.
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The Mercury News
Apr 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Never staid and often kinky, “Mary & George” stumbles halfway through but remains chew-up-the-scenery entertainment, a spicy affair that gets more outlandish and wicked with each episode. It helps that Moore and Galitzine are so good at forming this chess-like alliance and that a trio of top-notch directors — Oliver Hermanus, Alex Winckler and Florian Cossen — never let the high drama topple over into outright camp.
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TV Guide Magazine
Apr 23, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Mary & George is lurid fun, up to a point, as a kitschy hybrid of historical drama and R-rated primetime soap. [22 Apr - 12 May 2024, p.5]
Apr 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
But just as George does, the series eventually becomes too grandiose in its ambitions. Midway through, Mary & George eschews the carnal intrigue and begins plodding through Jacobean history, darkening itself into a moody recitation of the downfall of Walter Raleigh and other events leading to George’s end.
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Seasons & Episodes
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Season 1
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Season 1 Overview
Air Date: April 5, 2024
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S1:E7. War
Air Date: April 16, 2024
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S1:E6. The Queen is Dead
Air Date: May 10, 2024
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S1:E5. The Golden City
Air Date: May 3, 2024
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S1:E4. The Wolf & The Lamb
Air Date: April 26, 2024
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S1:E3. Not So Much By Love As By Awe
Air Date: April 19, 2024
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S1:E2. The Hunt
Air Date: March 12, 2024
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S1:E1. The Second Son
Air Date: March 5, 2024
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Season 1 Overview