.LacyMB reviews TheSerpentQueen, Starz's new Catherine de Medici drama that reminds us that powerful women don't have to be good---they just have to survive.
History isn’t often kind to powerful women. For centuries, women who desire more than the circumspect, carefully prescribed roles society has allotted for them have been branded unnatural freaks at best and dangerous threats at worst. Even the so-called “strong women” we remember most fondly are often lauded for the ways their behavior either mirrors or specifically appeals to men.
We initially meet Catherine in the aftermath of her eldest son Francis’ death, just days before her second son Charles is to be crowned king. Her reputation is already such that her servants fear her and essentially draw lots to see who will be stuck with the task of taking her meals. Well aware of this, Catherine leans into their assumptions, slithering through her palace in dramatic black gowns and looking every inch the dark witch everyone says she is.
The show’s first episodes flash back to Catherine’s youth in Italy and early days in France. Liv Hill gamely tackles the awkward years of the so-called Medici bitch, portraying a Catherine that still lacks the hard exterior her later self will wear like armor.
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