The First Look at Period Drama 'Mary & George' Is Positively Regal
Given how much of our popular media focuses on the reign of England's Queen Elizabeth I, it's nice to finally see a story about what happened next. After all, her chosen heir, James I, was the first monarch to rule over a united England, Ireland, and Scotland, continued her patronage of literature and the arts, sponsored the translation of the Bible into English, and bolstered the colonization of America. He also constantly scrapped with Parliament, and his paranoia over the occult catalyzed one of Europe's deadliest witch panics. Basically: there are so many stories from this era that our current media would do well to explore (and that are undoubtedly preferable to another treatise on the monstrousness of Henry Tudor. Just saying.)
Thankfully, period dramas finally seem to be developing some interest in the Stuart period, with films and television series featuring everything from the reign of James I to the English Civil War and the Stuart Restoration. One of the most intriguing projects is Mary & George, which aims to tell the story of Mary and George Villiers, an ambitious mother-son pair of courtiers who rose to immense power in James's court.
Sky and AMC have released a batch of first-look images for the highly anticipated period drama, which gives us our first glimpse of its lush seventeenth-century setting and costumes.
