'The Serpent Queen' Season 2 Sets July Premiere Date
The Medici bitch is back...or will be this summer. Starz has confirmed via its social media accounts that the second season of its dark and lavish period drama The Serpent Queen will premiere in July.
The series stars Samantha Morton (Harlots) as the infamous French queen Catherine de Medici, a controversial figure that history often likes to remember in the worst of all possible lights. (Was she a sorceress who dabbled in the dark arts? Probably not. An enthusiastic lover of poison who may have used her extensive herbal knowledge to off her enemies? Maybe.)
The first season of the series chronicled much of Catherine's early life, from her arrival in France to the death of both her husband and eldest son. Season 2 will see her second son take the throne as King Charles IX and the present-day story of the show catch up with the flashbacks Catherine has been narrating. And since many of the darkest and and most dramatic events of her life are still to come --- including the infamous St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, a series of assassinations and widespread mob violence against French Huguenots --- so it's not like there's a shortage of story to tell.
