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The Serpent Queen Recap: Catherine’s Garbage Children

Is it just me, or does this season feel half-hearted and weird?

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. Charles is boring, Anjou is making us gays look bad, Elisabeth did her 180 and is an inconsistent mystery, Margot is whatever the writers want her to be in any given scene, and Hercule is dead. She had Rahima use her sexy lady army to drug the wine of all the relevant royals, and by the time everyone woke up, Elisabeth was in a carriage with Philip and Charles V, being whisked away to her new homeland.

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