The Serpent Queen Recap: No One’s Getting Along

It’s a more exciting episode this week, but that will happen when your cliffhanger is a church full of people being burned down and the fate of the king of France hangs in the balance. That’s what we call stakes. Or it’s what we would call it if Charles were a more effective king. As it is, it seems like things would be exactly the same if he died in the fire, and no one wants to hear that about themselves (sorry, Charles).

Not only did Charles not get himself to the church in time to be burned alive...