Lets not lie to each other – when a “historical” show doesn’t follow history, it’s equal parts entertaining and equal parts do people not know how to do their research. Someone not fact checking when people died? Someone didn’t pay attention in history class?
Either way, it’s a television show, so I am trying to not read that much into it. However, I do love history and I am the person that pauses a television show and then looks things up. I should stop that, but hey, here we are. My seventh grade history teacher would be so proud of me.
Catherine has made her way back to France to be next to Hercules. A little confused as to why we didn’t get to see her bond with her bro in Italy, because that would have made good television. Yet not surprised that we have Catherine heading right back to be campaigning for Mama of the year, even when she’s the furthest thing from it.
I think that part of what The Serpent Queen excels in though is making you confused and yet embracing that confusion. The Serpent Queen has a stellar cast, amazing costumes, and yet, I am hung up on the timeline. I know, I know – move on. But hear me out – part of my issue with timelines remains because so many people use television as a lesson in history and I don’t want them thinking this is all facts. Yet, I know that shouldn’t be on me.
Hercules dies and so Catherine is in mourning. Hercules is her fave – you can’t convince me otherwise.
Catherine is having this recurring dream about egg shells being crushed. She’s disturbed by them and I am not giving a s***. The truth is, all of the dark magic part – even though I know people at that time believed in it. Catherine worries way too much about it.
She should be more worried though that her status has taken a turn for the worse at court. Everything that she told Charles not to do, he’s done. He went with his gut, which don’t we all? He is King, after all. He should do what he thinks is best (though he’s not too smart so don’t hold me saying that against me). The best part of this whole episode was him putting Catherine in her place. Him being like “I’m your King,” was EVERYTHING!
The second best part? Well that would be Catherine finding out that the Holy Roman Emperor was coming – that was the chefs kiss.
Charles de Guise is in the midst of causing a lot of trouble and trying to get Anjou on his side. Now I may think the Guise’s are horrible, but I do think that Anjou needs someone on his side. We learn in this episode that no one really had his back at all. Charles wants Anjou to ride on the Protestants and HRE (that’s what we’ll be calling the Holy Roman Emperor from now on) wants to have Catherine on his side. So he spills the plan to her.
This whole episode is basically everyone wanting to kill Edith. TBH, I am over Edith, but I know that she’s not going anywhere. Homie survived a fire, but like she’s let it all go to her head. It’s all complicated but like we know that Edith is just starting to cause issues and Queen Cray over in England is gonna use this to her advantage. It’s midway through the season, yes. Ediths demise will come. I can’t deal with her for much longer.
Catherine goes to see Ruggieri, and he basically tells her that she’s gotta get rid of Anjou to save the rest of her kids and stop having the egg dream. I get that she doesn’t like Anjou, but still, that’s her kid. Like the way that she’s so whatever with him is just gross.
The way everyone is so whatever with him is gross. Margot, for instance, asks the King to release the Duke of Guise and tells him to arrest Anjou. Like the whole scene is creepy, cause I straight up thought that Margot was ready to sleep with her brother, and I was gagging. I am not down for Game of Thrones here.
Louis de Bourbon is over in England and well, he’s just as uncomfortable as ever. Yet, I will take anyone in England because it means more time seeing Minnie Driver as Queen Elizabeth. God, I love her as Queen Cray. Completely out of it and unhinged. Give me all of it. She basically is like, you’re gonna get close to Edith (cause everything is about Edith as we know) and we’re gonna get your brother to be King of France. The whole naked scene between these two is weird but however the damage of seeing that is done.
What I do love about The Serpent Queen is the way that everyone is so unhinged, but all the women are the ones that are really in control. The men are all just too stupid to see it.
Anjou gets arrested and confined to his room. The King paying attention to Margot got him arrested. Now Anjou is no saint but like his family is doing him dirty and no one deserves that kind of chaos in their life.
So many dirty people.
But my favorite thing in this episode – HRE’s son is an a***ole and tries to stab a horse and the horse takes him down. I clapped for the horse. The horse is the hero.
