Marie Antoinette (Seasons 1–2)

Marie Antoinette (2022) is a lavish period drama you can watch online on iFILM. A teenage Austrian princess is sent off to marry the Dauphin of France before she even turns fifteen.

Versailles greets her with a maze of etiquette where every gesture is scripted and even the royal bedroom is fodder for court gossip. Marie Antoinette (Emilia Schüle) is expected to deliver an heir and cement the Franco-Austrian alliance. What she wants is a life of her own — so she learns the rules of the court, the better to bend them in time.

Directed by a team led by Raf Reyntjens and written by Deborah Davis of The Favourite, the show refuses to paint its queen as the frivolous spendthrift of the textbooks. Instead it gives us a girl buckling under impossible expectations. Expect opulent rooms, whispers behind fans, and palace scheming in the years before the Revolution. Stream Marie Antoinette online on iFILM.