TV
Troubled reign
Marie Antoinette, the lavish drama about the ill-fated French queen consort, starring Emilia Schüle, is back for a second series. As we return to 18th-century France, things aren’t going so well for Louis XVI (Louis Cunningham), a monarch trying to keep the dire state of the nation’s finances from all and sundry. Meantime, rumours of tax rises cause alarm among the clergy and the nobility, while extreme weather – associated in the historical record with volcanic activity in Iceland – makes life difficult for the less-privileged people of France.