What is going on with this season? I know we had a long break, but other than Minnie Driver bringing Elizabeth I to life through sheer force of will, it feels half-hearted and weird. I thought I had a bead on Elisabeth and Margot in the first episode , where Elisabeth is vain and bratty, and Margot is quiet and charitable. Now Elisabeth’s out here being called the most generous of Catherine’s children, and Margot’s being a real bitch to the Holy Roman Emperor’s grandniece for no reason.
Did they forget how they wrote them in the first episode? Or did they accidentally flip the names in the script? This season had one job: to show Catherine de’ Medici being fun and sneaky, and instead, she’s angsting over her garbage children and ignoring Rahima, who is being fun and sneaky and still needs more screen time. Catherine’s half-brother Alessandro follows her to Paris to build her palace. He immediately hits her up to sponsor a colony in America, specifically Florida.
If you’re like, oh sure, because of how strongly Florida is associated with the French language, that’s fair . The French don’t do a great job of colonizing Florida. Like, they tried, but the Spanish said “nah” and put a stop to that real quick.
“WE’LL be the ones demolishing civilizations, thank you,” the Spanish soldiers probably said. Catherine wants to put the doomed Floridian colony on hold anyway because France remains riven by religious strife. Her children are all off doing their .