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The Serpent Queen's second season ended with a bloodbath and a bang. The series reached one of the most memorable parts of Catherine de Medici's reign as queen of France: St Bartholomew's Massacre. This massacre is actually well known to modern audiences, as it&
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Period drama The Serpent Queen wrapped up its second season with an uber-dramatic and exceptionally bloody final installment that featured everything from a surprise pregnancy and a forced wedding to literal mass murder. "All Saints Day" is the sort of audacious, over-the-top storytelling that this show does best,
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The Season 2 finale of The Serpent Queen begins with Princess Margot throwing a major tantrum after hearing that she is to marry her cousin, Henri of Navarre, as her brother, King Charles, dodges the flying furniture and attempts to calm her down. Once free, Charles tackles his mother and
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The penultimate episode of Season 2 of The Serpent Queen opens with a demonstration of Edith’s growing aggression toward Catholics. Her gang, including Aabis, (who isn’t dead!) puts a dagger to the throat of an elderly priest outside his church until he renounces his faith. We first met
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Episode 6 of The Serpent Queen opens with Antoine Bourbon, still feeling the effects of the night before and Ruggiero’s drugged wine. Queen Elizabeth of England and her entourage sweep through the corridors as his brother, Louis, insists she can’t possibly be here; she’s in Flanders awaiting
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The Serpent Queen’s fifth episode, “Time With the Family,” marks Season 2’s halfway point. We’ve seen the creation of complicated alliances, quarrels, and crises, but Catherine seems somehow above it. She is the Queen Mother, respected if not liked, the line of succession is safe, and she’
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As The Serpent Queen enters the back half of its second season, viewers have seen plenty of complicated alliances, romantic entanglements, and political crises both at home and abroad. Despite Queen Catherine de Medici's (Samantha Morton) best efforts, religious strife and general unrest is spreading throughout France, and
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Episode 4 of The Serpent Queen begins with a sad homecoming for Catherine, expecting to hear the worst about her injured son Hercule. After an affectionate but restrained welcome from her other children, she meets the court doctor, who informs her that Hercule’s wound has become infected and his
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This week’s The Serpent Queen begins with Catherine leaving her family and courtiers for a business trip to Italy. On her long journey, Catherine has time to reflect on the situation she left behind in France. Her dearly loved but annoying children and the Guise and Bourbon families are
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The Serpent Queen’s second episode of Season 2 sees Francois Guise completely destroy the Protestant church run by the secular preacher, Edith, a powerful demonstration of Catholic might. Both Ruggieri and Montmorency visit the smoldering ruins. Montmorency reports to Catherine that there are no survivors (there are also no
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Season 2 of The Serpent Queen opens in 1572 as Catherine (Samantha Morton) and her family take a Grand Tour, a gesture of reconciliation – or propaganda, depending on your level of cynicism – toward their subjects, starving, superstitious peasants disenchanted with the Catholic Church. She’s no longer Regent since her
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The first season of The Serpent Queen on Starz proved that Catherine De Medici (Samantha Morton) is not to be messed with, but what happens when the “Italian witch” goes toe-to-toe with someone on her level? Journalists at the 2024 Television Critics Association summer press tour, including TellyVisions, were shown