TV-PGSeason 2
The most gripping sitcom since 1380.
Synopsis
Step into the Tudor court of Elizabeth I — Blackadder (1986), Season 2, six episodes you can watch online on iFILM. The schemer is reborn here as Lord Edmund Blackadder, a sharp-tongued courtier who survives a dangerous, childish queen by flattering her whims.
Every episode hands him a fresh trap. His manservant turns out to be a woman, so he abruptly decides to marry. The job of Lord High Executioner falls apart when the Queen pardons a man he's already beheaded. Sir Walter Raleigh wins her favour with a potato, so Blackadder reinvents himself as an explorer. Then come a debt to a sadistic bishop, a Puritan aunt and uncle arriving on the night of a beer-drinking contest, and a kidnapping by a German spy. Baldrick keeps offering a cunning plan; it never helps.
This is where the show became a classic — Miranda Richardson as the petulant Queenie, Stephen Fry as the pompous Melchett, the Curtis and Ben Elton scripts honed to a razor. The best place for a newcomer to start. Stream Blackadder Season 2 online on iFILM.
6 episodes
S2·E1Bells
Blackadder feels a funny attraction for his manservant and decides to marry when he discovers he is a she.
S2·E2Head
After the Queen appoints Blackadder Lord High Executioner, he finds himself in trouble when the Queen pardons someone he executed ahead of schedule.
S2·E3Potato
After Sir Walter Raleigh takes the Queen's fancy by bringing her a potato, Blackadder decides to become an explorer with the aid of a legless sea captain.
S2·E4Money
The Queen hampers Blackadder's efforts to raise cash to pay off a debt to a sadistic bishop.
S2·E5Beer
Blackadder's rich and Puritanical aunt and uncle pay him a visit to discuss his inheritance the same night he has a beer-drinking contest.
S2·E6Chains
Blackadder and Lord Melchett are kidnapped by a German spy right after the Queen decides she will pay no more ransom to kidnappers.
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