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From the start, the second season of Marie Antoinette holds a smattering of small victories and an overabundance of significant-to-catastrophic losses, but everyone sure looks gorgeous through it all. We could publish daily close-reads of nearly every scene’s visual riches, and if there were considerably less TV to cover,
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Marie Antoinette’s “A Poison Pen” is packed with illicit affairs and intricate scheming. The episode’s title refers to Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais and his new play, The Marriage of Figaro, the premiere performance of which put another nail in the coffin for the king and queen of France.
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Because of the vagaries of the spring schedule, April is a funny time at PBS Masterpiece, programing-wise. It's either jam-packed with premieres and finales because everything is three or four episodes long, or it gets skipped altogether because the March premieres fell on the late side of the
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When we last left Versailles in Season 1 of Marie Antoinette, the king and queen were on top of the world, with Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) finally giving birth to the dauphin. Sadly, that pinnacle will pretty much be their last. This season will be all about the different forces and
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Marie Antoinette sought to paint the much-maligned monarch in a new light – as a likeable, sympathetic figure that history has marred through a misogynistic lens. Far from the poster child for excess and out-of-touch aristocracy, we meet Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) when she is just a teenager. At fourteen years old,
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PBS has been off cycle from the commercial TV world ever since it discovered it could have the entirety of January to itself. However, spring is still a significant part of the schedule, especially when Masterpiece has a series it genuinely believes can compete in the yearly Primetime Emmy push.
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Marie Antoinette may never have said, “Let Them Eat Cake,” but history seems obsessed with her anyway. The extraordinarily wealthy and somewhat traumatized young bride of Louis XVI lived a life of extremes, little parenting, and less help in adulting; she buried herself in beauty and comfort until the populace
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As another television year fades to black, PBS stations close the book on 2024, a year that included releases for both new and existing series. From unexpected treats like The Marlow Murder Club and Gemma Arterton’s grounding performance in Funny Woman to a satisfying ending to Moonflower Murders, there
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Prepare to return to the world of Versailles: production on the second season of period drama Marie Antoinette is officially underway. The news comes alongside that the BBC has once again scooped up rights to broadcast Season 2 in the U.K. However, details about what fans can expect from
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After such a dramatic run of episodes, it's a bit strange that Marie Antoinette concludes its first season with a finale that feels determinedly lackluster compared to everything that came before it. It's not clear if the production wanted to make sure this finale concluded the
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The Queen of France achieves a dream nearly a decade in the making in the penultimate episode of Marie Antoinette's first season, but it somehow only reaffirms that nothing she does will ever be good enough for her husband's terrible family and his awful court. Yes,
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May has arrived, and with it, a major announcement. The Walter's Choice deluge of the last six months is finally ending. The massive wave of titles coming every Thursday since the end of November was part of PBS Passport catching up to its Masterpiece Channel cousin over on