The Serpent Queen
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Dare I call this the best episode yet of the season?
One might saythis seasons Diamond?
Catherine finally gathered herself together and is being the Serpent Queen.
Thats what were all here for, and instead, shes been amessall season.
This is a horrifying statement, but Im … looking … forward … to theSt.
That cant be right … but it is!
But this show isnt calledSister Edith.
Plus, shes making people convert under threat of death, and thats not cool.
Catherine discovers that Charles has consumption.
Then she gets into a whole thing about deviance and how he needs to hide who he is.
So it must refer to his temper and selfishness?
Margot is on the board now and being used by everyone for their own ends.
He calls her little girl, and I expected him to start singing Sixteen Going On Seventeen.
Isnt Margot like twenty-five?
(Philippine Velge, the actor playing Margot,got their BA in 2018, so Im guessing 28?
Im just saying its weird.)
His solution is to become a Protestant and hopefully calm down Ediths followers.
Sure, why not?
But what about his proposed marriage to Elizabeth?
Elizabeth already indicated her preference for Anjou, which Catherine realizes.
Elizabeth also knows what consumption looks like, and she says she watched her own sister succumb to it.
No, she didnt!
Mary Ilikely died from cancer.
Then Elizabeth says, She wasnt always known as Mad Mary.
Was she ever???
Literally, the only thing I could find for Mad Mary was writer Charles Lambsunfortunate sister Mary Lamb.
You cant just make things up!
What if people start going around talking about Elizabeth Is mentally ill and consumptive sister who never existed?
Okay, but Elizabeths last scenes at the French court really are great.
I just got verythrownby those back-to-back bananas statements.
Elizabeth, saying she imagines Catherine and Anjou have lots to discuss, leaves.
Anjou tells Catherine to shut the door because hes not quite finished.
So here we are.
Given what Catherine said to Anjou earlier, though, Im not incredibly surprised.
The next morning, Catherine is really hitting rock bottom.
Elizabeth is like,well, yeah.
I love a the facade comes down moment.
This is a mark of respect!
Damn, this Elizabeth is great, aside from the weird, made-up stories about her sister.
The Bourbons see Elizabeth leaving and hightail it out of court right before theyre arrested for treason.
So now theyre with Sister Edith, along with Jeanne and Henry and Aabis and Montmorency.
And the cardinal, but hes a spy at court, soshhhhhh.
Were beds not available?
Do you know how many insects live in a forest?
Catherine goes to see Ruggieri right before he leaves, and he helps her have a vision.
That felt like a classic betrayal moment, but nope, he just genuinely helps her have a vision.
The sixth traitor is a child.
Catherine asks if its one of hers, and Ruggieri says, Who can say?
Okay, so thats useless.
Everyone is someones child.
Are you kidding me, Ruggieri?
Its a nice apology.
How is that legal?
I do not know, but Im definitely not researching sixteenth-century French regency law.
I have my limits.
