A King Fit For Topping

It had been so long since I'd posted about this project (since January, see here) that it had quite incredibly entirely slipped my mind -- Nicholas Galitzine and Julianne Moore starring in Mary & George, the very queer tale of Mary Villiers and her beautiful son George who she used to seduce King James I with back circa 17th Century England, from Oliver Hermanus, the director of Moffie and Living and the forthcoming gay WWI romance with Paul Mescal & Josh O'Connor. This is a thing and I forgot about it! In my defense there's, you know, a lot happening in the world. 

Anyway a trailer dropped for Mary & George yesterday and it does not appear to be disappointing on all that we'd dreamed and hoped it might be -- it's the great Tony Curran who's playing the horned-up King and we've loved him ever since Andrea Arnold's film Red Road. This is a seven-part series that will air on Starz some time next year -- hopefully not too far into next year! Making us wait for this gorgeoues gay spectacle would be cruel in an election year. We will need the happy distraction. Here's the trailer:

So what do we think? Isn't it everything? It is everything.