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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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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 eighth and final episode of Starz’s The Serpent Queen opens with Catherine’s maid Rahima in the forest looking for Ruggieri. She betrayed his location to Mary in exchange for her freedom. No surprise then that he holds a knife to her throat as she examines the wreck
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It’s the penultimate episode of The Serpent Queen, and Catherine’s narration of events has almost caught us up to the present. However, we start with a different point of view in this episode when Rahima, still imprisoned, receives a visit from Mary Stuart de Guise, there to recruit
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Episode 6, “The Last Joust,” of The Serpent Queen opens with an ominous, twisted fantasy. An injured King Henri is carried on a bier by Montmorency and Francois. The processional is followed by Catherine and Diane, walking hand in hand. The two women turn to each other; the series seems
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Episode 5 of The Serpent Queen opens as Catherine de Medici and her favored maid Rahima stroll in the forest. In fitting with the series’ fairytale themes, the forest is so often the place where bad things happen, and where supernatural beings roam. Rahima spots a man, or a creature,