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'The Serpent Queen' Season 2 Trailer Promises to Shake Up French History

Lacy Baugher Milas

12 Jun 2024 — 2 min read

The second season of The Serpent Queen, the lavish period drama about controversial French queen Catherine de Medici will premiere on Starz this summer, and it looks as if the series is definitively turning things up a notch as rival factions fight for power and the Medici bitch struggles to hold on to control of a kingdom.

"They say you get the life that you deserve. F*ck that," Samantha Morton's (Harlots) Medici queen intones in the Season 2 trailer. "Life is about what you're willing to do to survive. And I am willing to do anything."

If the preview for the upcoming season is anything to go by, Catherine will have to survive a lot to keep her power and hold France together. Her second son is now King Charles IX, and civil war is looming between the French Catholics and Protestants, spurred on by a growing religious movement led by a so-called "prophet" named Edith (Isobel Jesper Jones).

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