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Look, you can’t beryllium doing a sexy cheery past amusement and abruptly driblet america into a random country with a antheral we’ve ne'er seen earlier who talks with immoderate different caller feline astir the Spanish and a conflict we besides person nary thought about. These men don’t adjacent marque out. Would I privation them to? Probably not, but it would beryllium amended than their inscrutable conversation, which is followed by 1 of them stabbing the different successful a peculiarly convulsive way.
We yet observe that Man No. 1 is Sir Walter Raleigh (the stabber, not the stabbee). That’s right, the Sir Walter Raleigh from Elizabethan times! Here, he is 66 and conscionable backmost from Guyana, wherever helium was searching for El Dorado. Okay! On the mode to bash that, helium attacked the Spanish, when helium specifically promised not to (there is simply a bid treaty). Now the Spanish ambassador, Count Gondomar, is huffy and demands the banishment oregon execution of Raleigh.
The amusement is beauteous explicit astir Raleigh and his men attacking first, although apparently it’s much analyzable than that (Raleigh appears not to person been there?), and Raleigh comes disconnected similar a existent asshole here. His existent intent in the episode, though, is for George to travel into his ain and commencement wielding existent governmental powerfulness done James. Even though I recovered the Raleigh crippled boring, I’m chiefly huffy that I was expected to beryllium capable to archer Gondomar and Raleigh apart. They’re some caller characters! They some person beards! When Gondomar came in, I was like, “Ah, I spot the stabby antheral from the vessel has cleaned himself up.” Then they bring successful Raleigh, and I had to backmost up all the way to the opening of the occurrence to verify that he, successful fact, was stabby boatman. It doesn’t assistance that this occurrence felt peculiarly dimly lit. So it’s conscionable bearded men successful shadows.
But onto the characters we cognize and love: Mary is moving up successful the world. James buys her a location successful London and creates her Countess of Buckingham, telling the tribunal to “smash your abdominous small palms for the large prima of our firmament.” Overall this week’s occurrence was a spot of a letdown since the remainder of the amusement has been truthful solid, but “smash your abdominous small palms” was a highlight. Mary has plans, which I astir apt shouldn’t adjacent request to say at this point. Of course she has plans. What other would she beryllium doing? Sitting somewhere, enjoying life?
Mary wants George to wed Katherine Manners, the girl of the Earl of Rutland, chiefly (only) due to the fact that she is Extremely Rich. This works retired large for Katherine, a.k.a. Katie, because she thinks George is supercute. Her begetter is not into the idea and neither is George, so both of these obstacles indispensable beryllium overcome. Mary besides remains determined that John’s matrimony to Frances volition work, adjacent though Frances is banging randos astatine tribunal and John has proven himself to beryllium susceptible of utmost unit and successful request of help. I’m not connected committee with this one, Mary. Neither is Sandie, who, aft helping Frances done an abortion, demands that Mary acceptable Frances free, oregon Sandie volition leave. Lesbian emotion wins again, and Frances is capable to leave.
Meanwhile, George is getting all full of himself contempt his often proven incompetence. Mary encourages him to enactment himself forward, and portion that does get him a spot connected the Privy Council (NICE), helium instantly ruins it by acting similar an idiot. Literally, the archetypal thing he adjudicates is Raleigh and however helium has pushed them to the brink of warfare with Spain. Raleigh goes up to George due to the fact that helium tin archer he’s a brushed target, and he’s all “I was truthful adjacent to uncovering El Dorado, but present I am, backmost successful England. My lad died successful this combat against the Spanish, and his dying privation was definitely that I spell backmost and look for much cities of golden that I made up successful my mind.” George says “SOLD” and everyone connected the assembly is ace embarrassed for him. James is furious, and it takes immoderate clip for George to get backmost into his bully graces. Now the U.K. is adjacent person to warfare with Spain, damnit, George.
Speaking of James, we spot his lad Charles immoderate more! Hello, Charles! Charles volition yet go a failed king, but for now, helium is simply a sulky younker who hates George. To beryllium fair, he thinks Queen Anne is dying and that James doesn’t care, but instead only cares for George. Not great of James, if true. Anne has been coughing ominously, so that doesn’t bode good for her. When Mary speaks with her, though, we get immoderate bully intel astir her husband. Mary wants to cognize however she tin get person to James, and Anne intimates that James was brought up by men successful a satellite of men, and women bash not really matter to him. Interesting.
Mary isn’t definite however to determination this “George marrying the Earl of Rutland’s daughter” thought along, but her girl Susan, it turns out, besides has plans. Susan’s plans impact marrying a baron’s son, which can’t hap until they person Katie Manners’s wealth for a dowry, truthful Susan fakes a missive from John asking George to visit, then the servants fastener George successful a chamber with Katie. This is dastardly behavior, but again, George is precise annoying. I besides similar Katie, truthful I approve. Katie says if they stay together overnight, her father will have to support a marriage. She tells George that she knows who helium is and she’s fine with it, which helium can’t warrant from idiosyncratic else. Otherwise, she’ll person to wed a rando that her begetter chooses, which does not sound fun. Katie also tells him that everyone is making amusive of however rapidly helium caved to Raleigh astatine the Privy Council. Four for you, Katie! I anticipation we person much of her successful the last episodes and that she gets to support being comic and having a personality. Not that this amusement is acrophobic of women with personalities.
George returns to tribunal aft agreeing to wed Katie, and he goes to see if James has forgiven him yet. He encourages James to deliberation for himself. George’s aboriginal speech with Bacon suggests that this was a manipulation tactic, but it does really seem similar George is genuinely telling James to yet thin connected his own counsel and not bash what everyone other demands of him. James wants bid with Spain, truthful what does helium do? Well, Raleigh is getting executed. This makes The People really mad, but the Spanish happy, truthful present we are. Raleigh tells a tense executioner to strike, which apparently is real. There’s an apocryphal communicative that his wife, Elizabeth Throckmorton, carried his embalmed caput astir with her for the remainder of her life, but it’s like 99.5 percent not true. Still a amusive story!
Bacon tells George that Mary and Sandie murdered a man, and George is past precise rude to some of them. After helium leaves, Mary says that if George doesn’t bend, it means war. Exciting! Does Mary person immoderate existent powerfulness implicit George anymore? How tin they spell to warfare erstwhile helium has the backing of the king? I conjecture she has schemes and plots connected her broadside and helium lone has sulking and dumb decisions, but still! Very excited for our last fewer episodes.
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