Versailles
THURSDAY, 8.30PM, SSBS
There’s plenty to get your pulse racing in the second season of this raunchy period drama, which picks up with Louis XIV (George Blagden)’s slow descent into madness. After the death of his childhood sweetheart Henriette (Noemie Schmidt) and his fall-out with his brother Philippe (Alexander Vlahos), the King’s paranoia starts to spiral out of control, especially when one of his ministers is poisoned. A dark prophecy from a fortune teller, and the distant threat of William of Orange, almost send him under as the power plays of court get uglier and uglier. Your guilty pleasure, sorted.