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Julianne Moore's name is almost synonymous with cinema, but even the obsessive actress of beloved author Todd Haynes is no stranger to television: she deliberately did so in a TV series (As the World Turns), and let herself be seen in a TV movie produced by Lovecraft's (Lethal) Hechizo from in 1991) and made his film debut…in the spin-off series (Cuentos desde la oscuridad). Even after working with Robert Altman, the Coens, Paul Thomas Anderson and the best American directors, he wanted to appear in a great series of Rockefeller Plaza episodes or star in the miniseries The Story of Lisey.

That's why it shouldn't be surprising, or even relative, to see Moore starring in the miniseries “Mary and George,” especially considering that recent prestige is achieved by embracing serialized narrative, rather than shunning it or considering it merely an afterthought. Resources For decades, actresses and actors over the age of 30 have found great roles there, offering more substance than any secondary role in the superhero cinema industrial complex.

The character presented by Mary and George was indescribably seductive: Mary Villiers, that woman of humble origins who, based on dark maneuvers, ended up climbing through high society and at the court of the Jacobite era; Today she is known as the Countess of Buckingham. One of his tools in this rise was his son George (Nicholas Galitzine), whom he taught and manipulated into becoming the lover of King James VI of Scotland and I of England (Tony Curran, Van Gogh in Doctor Who).

In the first episode, we see Maryam sending her son Georges to France, where debauchery is rampant and the series becomes Versailles. She will stay at home looking for a husband who will allow her to continue climbing the ranks, no matter how small. Although he is quite naive at first, George gradually gains independence and begins to want to establish himself as more than just a pretty face, something his mother does not exactly like.

Written by playwright DC Moore (episodes of Killing Eve or Temple) and based on the non-fiction book by Benjamin Woolley, the series has an interesting lead director: Oliver Hermanus, who has already explored covert sexuality and the repression of desire in films. Winner of the Cannes Belleza or Movie award. But, despite this lineage, Mary and George do not distinguish themselves much from many other palatal plots driven by sexual impulses and a craving for power, as one is inextricably linked to the other; Almost every sexual act is a strategy, not a cliffhanger.

The biggest hook that ends up being, unsurprisingly, is Moore's work as Villiers, all Sibilini intelligence and stern coldness, though we can't forget the work of Niamh Algar (Sergeant) as Sandy, the brothel owner who gets something more than Mary's body. They are actresses capable of elevating the material above what is merely generic and causing sparks of various kinds to fly on screen.