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Well, it took maine an embarrassingly long time to recognize that we’re moving guardant 1 twelvemonth per episode. “Oh look, they’re noting the twelvemonth again!” I would say. So now, present we are successful 1617, and immoderate peasants person unearthed a burial tract successful a acheronian Scottish forest. This feels Macbethian (a play written during James I’s reign!). The gravediggers find thing wrapped successful robust and ask, “What benignant of demented wee antheral are we moving for here?” CUT TO JAMES.
James is each implicit the spot this week. We’re each precise acrophobic astir him. He begins by biting George connected the wrist similar a damn animal. When George tends to it later, James kisses it and pronounces it “all better.” Not really, James! Do you cognize however overmuch bacteria lives successful the quality mouth? No, you bash not because, arsenic we mentioned already, it’s 1617! My friend was bitten by her cat, and her manus blew up similar a balloon. And according to an extremely cursory Google search, quality bites are much unsafe than carnal bites.
Everyone other watching this moved connected from the wound infinitesimal successful 2 seconds, but I stay concerned. What volition you bash without antibiotics, George? I guess since his humanities origin of decease is not “king bite,” we tin continue. This week is each astir James and George successful Scotland, George learning some things about The World, and Mary astatine location arsenic she tries to wed John to Sir Edward Coke and Lady Hatton’s girl Frances. Mary doesn’t request to larn astir The World due to the fact that she is good acquainted with however royally it has screwed her over.
This matrimony betwixt John and Frances is … complicated. Because the amusement is named Mary & George, we mostly basal for some Mary and George. But John is mentally ill, and dangerously so, and Mary just does not attraction due to the fact that she wants him joined well. Lady Hatton is an asshole, but she’s chiefly trying to support her girl successful a pretty amazing way for the seventeenth century. I person to keep reminding myself of the second information arsenic I go, “GEEZ, tin Lady Hatton conscionable easiness up connected hiding her girl distant from this intensely unsuitable groom Frances definitely doesn’t privation to marry?” It’s precise mentally jarring. John is disconnected walking into the estate’s water and past astir drowning, clip and clip again, and Mary’s caller hubby has to support rescuing him. This would beryllium precise emotionally (and physically) taxing! It’s understandable erstwhile Sir Thomas says helium misses being bored and alone.
James basically says helium hates Scotland but that he has to spell backmost due to the fact that of “duty.” I person to confess, that benignant of enactment ever sways me. It’s terrible, I know. Duty is what caused the complaint of the light brigade, which is simply a memorable poem, but it was specified a stupid way to suffer lives. Yet present we are; this worked connected me. James names Francis Bacon the Keeper of the Seal portion he’s away, which is precise fancy for Bacon, and George accompanies James, lone to beryllium seated acold distant from him astatine dinner. George sulks astir this because, of course, helium does. Who is determination to cheer him up but Sir Peter Carr, Somerset’s cousin? I privation I could accidental that I, similar George’s member Kit, didn’t spot Peter, but I did! I did spot him! This is yet another crushed I cannot beryllium allowed at James I’s court.
Peter is all, “Oh, I hatred Somerset, booooo, he’s the worst.” This is a clever deception. In the meantime, helium worms his mode into our hearts by being cute and having large enactment with George. Everyone successful the seventeenth period is gay! This is like that musical Zanna, Don’t, wherever everyone is gay and you person to travel retired arsenic straight. Imagine George hitting connected a antheral and that man not being into it. Seems impossible. I conjecture that could besides beryllium due to the fact that Nicholas Galitzine is a precise pretty man.
Anyway, so Kit doesn’t spot how nice Peter is, and large occupation connected that, Kit. George and I proceed to be like, “Sometimes radical are nice, Kit.” Well, no, they aren’t. Not erstwhile you unrecorded successful a satellite of INTRIGUE. Before Peter reveals his malicious intentions, he’s conscionable portion of the king’s retinue. James is keeping George astatine arm’s length, which makes George get adjacent closer with Peter. George yet asks James what is up, because he’s been a existent Debbie Downer since they came to Scotland, and George thinks everyone determination is super nice. James points retired that the Scottish murdered his father before James was calved and “gave my parent to the English to beryllium caged and beheaded.” Hm. Yes. Good point. James tells George that helium had a true love once, and nary one is ever going to measure up. Could this antheral beryllium linked to the weird burial astatine the beginning? (Yes.)
Meanwhile, Mary enlists Sandie to find Frances due to the fact that Lady Hatton has squirreled her away. Again, good for Lady Hatton. Sandie finds her and, portion wearing a amusive hat, storms the location with a radical of armed men and finds Frances hiding successful the attic. Frances looks truthful overmuch similar Anne Hathaway. It’s each I tin deliberation of whenever I spot her. She’s shoved into a carriage with Mary and Sandie, who are canoodling successful the corner. Lesbians, americium I right? No chill. Not unless we’re faced with a dire situation, which these 2 are astir to be, astatine which point, canoodling ceases and chill commences. Francis Bacon and a enactment of behorsed men halt the carriage. Francis tells Mary that this isn’t a large concern for anyone, and helium proposes the full happening to King Solomon. This results successful a house-sharing/joint custody concern with Mary, Frances, and Lady Hatton, which I LOVE and privation we got much of.
Sandie tells Mary that she went to Mary’s location and it was hell. John had conscionable sliced Jenny, the serving girl, crossed the look due to the fact that helium had been locked successful his country aft continuing to locomotion into the lake. Mary tries to person Sandie that everything volition beryllium good and she’ll instrumentality attraction of it. She besides says that the wedding is still on? MARY.
Back successful Scotland, James loses his crap by a stream and starts moving astir saying that the men with him are going to assassinate him. Peter pulls him retired of the river, giving us even more crushed to spot him. No worries here! Kit calls James “the Mad River King,” and I would work a publication with that title, one 100 percent.
Okay, present we get to Peter’s devious treachery. He takes George to Ruthven Castle (now Huntingtower Castle), seemingly to bang. While there, helium tells George astir James’s “great love,” the Duke of Lennox, and however the Scottish nobles kidnapped James and kept him astatine Ruthven in bid to get escaped of Lennox. Nobles really hate a favorite. During this storytelling, Peter is seemingly getting acceptable to sex George, sitting connected apical of him. Then helium starts choking him, and for a second, you’re like, oh, truthful they are going to bang, but it is soon very clear that, no, Peter is conscionable trying to execution George for what helium did to Somerset. He calls George an English slut! How volition George get retired of this one?
But past Kit appears and shoots Peter successful the head. George survives! Kit is made an earl! James apologizes to George for shutting him out, and helium tells George astir his past with Lennox. When Lennox died successful France, helium sent his embalmed bosom to James, which is what the gravediggers dug up earlier. James said helium came to Scotland due to the fact that of duty, and that work was to bring Lennox location and rebury him there. James and George person a benignant infinitesimal together that I appreciate because everyone is always being so crafty on this amusement that it’s bully to have a momentary pause for genuine emotion.
James and his entourage find a beauteous field and he calls his men to commencement digging. George wants to bash it, and erstwhile James asks why, George says, “Duty.” CUTE. George and James excavation together. This probably should not, successful fact, be cute, but it is. As they travel backmost towards London, the royal enactment makes camp, and who should amusement up but Francis Bacon. He wanted to archer his broadside of the Frances/John story before Mary. Unfortunately for him, Mary is already successful the king’s structure and has been talking to him for hours. Take that, Bacon, you’ve just been Villiersed!
As a effect of each this, John and Frances get married. Surely this cannot extremity well. When George asks if helium tin take his own wife, Mary says no, but that she looks aft him well, and she will look aft each her children. What does that mean, Mary?! What are your plans? No, wait, don’t archer us. I’m looking forward to being amazed and horrified.
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