"VICTORIA" Season Two (2017) Episode Ranking
Below is my ranking of the Season Two episodes of the ITV series called "VICTORIA". Created by Daisy Goodwin, the series stars Jenna Coleman as Queen Victoria:
"VICTORIA" SEASON TWO (2017) EPISODE RANKING
1. (2.06) "Faith, Hope & Charity" - Horrified by the Great Famine in Ireland, both Queen Victoria and the Reverend Robert Traill try to persuade Prime Minister Robert Peel's government and the British clergy in the country to take action.
2. (2.09) "Comfort and Joy" - In this Christmas episode, a pregnant Victoria receives a "gift" from King Gezo of Dahomey in the form of a young African princess who had been his political prisoner. Meanwhile, Prince Albert desperately tries to introduce the German Christmas custom to the British court, despite the tension from unwelcome guests and personal problems.
3. (2.01) "A Soldier's Daughter" - While Victoria deals with postnatal depression following the birth of her oldest child, Princess Victoria, Albert and Peel scramble to hide the grisly details of the Retreat From Kabul near the end of the First Anglo-Afghan War.
4. (2.07) "The King Over the Water" - Following two assassination attempts, Victoria and Albert travel to the Scottish Highlands becomes guests at the 6th Duke of Atholl's home, Blair Castle, for a private retreat. However, the retreat is nearly ruined when the couple ends up lost in the countryside.
5. (2.08) "The Luxury of Conscience" - Albert unwittingly creates more political problems for Peel, when he supports the latter's efforts to repeal the Corn Laws.
6. (2.04) "The Sins of the Father" - Victoria gives birth to a second child, Prince Albert-Edward (future King Edward VII). While she deals with postnatal depression for the second time, Albert's father dies. Albert travels to Coburg and learns an ugly family secret from his uncle, King Leopold of the Belgians.
7. (2.05) "Entente Cordiale" - Victoria drags Albert and the British Court to France in an effort to convince the country's King Louis Phillippe I to deter the latter from arranging a marriage between his son Duke of Montpensier and Queen Isabel II of Spain.
8. (2.03) "Warp and Weft" - Moved by the plight of a silk weaver in Spitalfields, Victoria throws a lavish medieval ball at Buckingham Palace with all attendees wearing outfits made in the impoverished area. Meanwhile, she becomes aware of former Prime Minister Lord Melbourne's failing health.
9. (2.02) "The Green-Eyed Monster" - Victoria becomes pregnant with her second child and develops a jealous suspicion that Albert might be attracted to Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, who is a mathematician associated with the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge.