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Related: Fellow Travelers ' true story is just as important as the show itself. The same is true for Mary. And that's even true for Robert Carr Laurie Davidsonthe 1st Earl of Somerset, despite his best efforts to sabotage George, his closest rival for James's affections and tongue.

That's not to say we should all be horrible gays just for the sake of it, but the way George uses queer sex to get what he wants, be it a flash of his extremely bisexual earring or a flick of his wavy hair, is akin to reclaiming a slur.

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It's not as if the show is trying to punish them for their gay misdeeds, however, as was often the case in older queer narratives. In that regard, the show is essentially "be gay, do crime" personified. Given she's the key matriarchal figure of the whole show, it would be easy to assume that she's mary, yet it's only when she's being submissive to Sandie, her sex-worker-turned-consort, that Mary softens her cruel, spiteful exterior.

By making almost everyone here queer, it doesn't matter that they're all evil to varying degrees, because there's no straight "hero" who they can be compared to unfavourably. The crying we hear in the opening scene is George wailing as a newborn baby in the moments after he's born to Mary.

In fact, there's something rather empowering about seeing queerness wielded as a weapon against others. James himself is downright inhumane at times, and Nicola Walker's turn as Elizabeth Hatton left us screaming, like when she describes George as: "The sodomite with the gallow's eyes who thinks his shaft and taint are the centre of the Earth.

As George grows into an attractive, capable young bisexual, Mary does what any good mother would do: she exploits her son's hotness by making him seduce the King, a raging homosexual whose bed is home to a who's who of young gay hotties circa and These "semen guzzlers", as they're described at one point, meet their gay in Mary and George.

Watch Nicholas Galitzine and Tony Curran being horny and treacherous in a new clip from Starz's Mary & George. They're not the only cruel ones either. That's okay though. And no, we don't mean like that. When his mother, Mary (Julianne Moore), sends him off to France, he encounters Jean (Khalil Ben Gharbia), who unlocks his inner fantasies and becomes the catalyst for the scenes in question.

George attempts to die by suicide multiple times before he's eventually murdered, while Mary suffers years of abuse and mockery from husbands and high society alike, not to mention the death of her one true love. It's curious that the few straight characters who do exist in this show are mostly fine with homosexuality, despite them all living in the not-so progressive 17th century.

That's understandable yet ultimately inaccurate, because queer people can suck just as much as straight people do. Aside from Hatton, almost everyone is queer in some way although even she channels camp to perfection and, funnily enough, everyone on the show is also a monstrous piece of shit.

Julianne is literally mothering here, but the mothering on display isn't going to win Mary an award for Best Mother anytime soon. Whether she's bisexual or actually just forced to sleep with men to ascend in society remains unclear, but what is clear is the power she wields as a queer Mother with a capital M, of course.

To reach the top or bottom, as George actor Nicholas Galitzine does so often in his filmsMary and George have no qualms about lying, cheating, backstabbing or even killing people if it means they can secure themselves a life of prosperity in the King's royal court.

Why cry tears of sadness when you can use a fancy neckerchief to mop up the tears of your enemies instead? Mary & George spoilers follow — and they're extremely gay. Sky 's Mary & George – starring Julianne Moore and Nicholas Galitzine – scenes with crying, but this royal affair isn't a sad one.

What's long been deemed as "weak" or "wrong" brings George strength and influence in this brutal high society. Mary and George george get off scot-free from all their atrocities, though. We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article.