Versailles season 2

 Okay, I loved the first season, starring "Athelstan", but now it is at last time to watch the second season after, well, a 7 year gap...

For no other reason then that I didn't find it on some streamer of such sooner.

 

The palace is becoming renown across the world as a marvel to behold, but inside it's walls a scandal takes place when a poisoning happens.  A playwright arrives at the palace while madame De Montespan, who carries Louis XIV's child, tries to make her influence bigger.

 

 

His brother Philippe is forced to marry a german princess in order to secure an alliance, as the dutch are becoming more and more a threat for Louis.  He decides to go to war, even personally leading his forces.  This leads to more murders happening in his abscence, and while Louis suffers from insomnia, he becomes so paranoid he believes God is out to punish him.  Madame de Monetspan loses their child, as it becomes clear a plot is being forged to overthrow him while away.

 

During the war, the army gets stalled at Amsterdam, and William of Orange comes forth to meet Louis XIV, offering an alliance.  The talks go on, but it makes Louis realise of the error of his convictions, and he throws away the possible treaty to return to Versailles.  Upon his arrival, he decides to put order onto things, and weed out the traitor.  He reinstates Marchal as head of the police, and his brutal but efficient methods make him unravel a satanic cult, and half the court seemingly being involved in the poisoning.  But the playwright is at the core of it all as the traitor, and Philippe tries to gain his trust in order to force him to reveal his intentions.

 

 

While the poisonmaker is arrested together with a lot of notables at court, de Motespan who was also involved and lately ignored by Louis XIV is spared at first.  The spy is shot down by Philipps lover, as the brothers settle their differences... but the dangers to the throne haven`t passed, as Marchal barely prevents the King being poisoned during the eastern mass.

I enjoyed the season for sure, now to find a service to get the third and final season from...