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Critic Reviews
ColliderJul 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Overall, The Serpent Queen Season 2 is a continuation of everything the show did so well in Season 1. Letting Samantha Morton do what she does best, the series continues the extraordinary story of its larger-than-life central character with conviction, bravado, and pitch-black, relentless humor that never outstays its welcome.
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Sep 12, 2022
Season 1 Review:
"The Serpent Queen" may be the latest Starz drama that plumbs the ghastly inner workings of court intrigue to remind us that in the past, as now, a woman's life was far from the stuff of fables. But it distinguishes itself by rinsing away the cosmetics of royal etiquette and self-serious machination with bracing wit.
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Sep 8, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Samantha Morton, whose career has brought her from strength (“Jesus’ Son,” “Sweet and Lowdown”) to strength (“Harlots”), is just right for the role. ... In the five episodes (of eight in all) made available, Morton is somewhat peripheral, as we see how Catherine came to power through flashbacks featuring an excellent Liv Hill as the younger, more vulnerable version. But she nonetheless casts a powerful shadow across those episodes.
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The PlaylistSep 19, 2022
Season 1 Review:
“The Serpent Queen” grafts its kitschiness onto the nominally bookish genre. While it definitely shares a kinship with Starz’s other Tudor-centric series, Morton’s knowingly malevolent portrayal, alongside Hill, spices up the proceedings just enough to elicit interest.
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ColliderSep 7, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Morton is the one that guides us through all of the story’s challenges with ease. When making the most of her performance and the character study it creates, The Serpent Queen proves to be more than worth getting wrapped up in, with the story only luring us in — much like the snake in its title.
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Jul 8, 2024
Season 2 Review:
Although The Serpent Queen Season 2 may take its sweet time setting its many political pieces into place, the series relentlessly builds to a crescendo that’s bloody, shocking, and full of the sort of unrepentant scheming and betrayal that the name Catherine de Medici is (rightly or wrongly) famous for.
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Sep 9, 2022
Season 1 Review:
Maybe the most interesting about “The Serpent Queen,” though, is the strange tension between its attempts to twist the historical drama with fourth-wall breaks and modern soundtrack and the fact that it is otherwise….well, an entirely typical historical drama. Which is fine!
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The GuardianSep 12, 2022
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