Not quite as bad as I feared, although as historically inaccurate... (spoilers)

Notes:

- Saoirse Ronan did a great job. It's a shame she couldn't have been Mary in a better film and a better director

- The revisionist casting with black and Asian characters was totally superfluous. It added nothing to the film and only really hurt the suspension of disbelief. And the little flirtation with Mary's lady was utterly pointless.

- The meeting between Mary and Elizabeth was probably was the worst part, it felt the movie was dragging at that point. The way it was done with the laundry sheets and no guards or courtiers was absurd.

- David Rizzio was rumored to be a homosexual, but since he was hated, its not surprising. That's the way it went. Every sovereign and every courtier had gossip spread about them. It certainly wasn't done openly like that with Mary and her ladies.

- I was pleasantly surprised at how her relationship with Bothwell was handled. I feared another revisionist love story between them at first, but they didn't go that route and did a better job with it than other films about Mary have.