Will There Be a 'The Serpent Queen' Season 3? There's Certainly More Story to Tell

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, as Catherine de Medici presides over the epic, bloody madness that viewers had been waiting for weeks to see. (For a sense of its scope, this episode's real-life events helped inspire the infamous Red Wedding in George R.R. Martin's Game of Thrones books.)

Though the finale has a reasonably ambiguous ending in which Catherine hints at Charles's death and Anjou's eventual succession to the throne of France, Starz has yet to announce whether The Serpent Queen will return for a third season. But if history is anything to go by, there's plenty of story to tell.

"All Saint's Day" sees Catherine finally abandon her plans for peace and stability between France's competing religious and political factions, engineering not only the murder of supposed Protestant prophet Edith but her primary supporters and most of the queen's enemies to boot. (It's not Catherine's fault if both the Princes of the Blood miraculously survive somehow.) This event would become known as the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, and it's one of the darkest events of Catherine's rule. Though the true extent of the royal family's involvement remains unclear, its fallout was very real, extending throughout France and much of Europe.