YMMV / The Accursed Kings

• Accidental Innuendo: A self-congratulatory Robert tells Lormet "Beautiful things are women's asses, you can even find a county in them!" after his Engineered Heroics with the Daunet brothers.
• Cargo Ship: Try a Drinking Game for every time Robert mention the Artois. Seriously, his wife, his children and anyone else comes second to the point that his wife is fed up with having the Artois as the only dinner topic.
• Complete Monster: Mahaut d'Artois is the countess of the lands of Artois, a corrupt and ruthless woman who uses poison as her favorite method of bending fate to her whim. Killing numerous people, even murdering King Louis himself to remove any obstacles, Mahaut is willing to chance Civil War and mass death to keep hold of Artois and ensure her bloodline sits atop the throne. To remove Louis's bloodline, she proceeds to poison the baby she thinks is Louis, delighting in the crimes she commits, with the more perverse and eviler bringing her the most joy.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Queen Isabella of France's reputation would be stained because of her affair with Roger Mortimer, even as she nominally remains married to her estranged husband Edward II. In an eerily-similar note, her actress in the 2005 series, Julie Gayet, would be publicly covered for her affair with French President Francois Hollande (whose then-second wife was already his mistress while he was with his first wife). They would later marry.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Charles, the youngest of Philip's son, is essentially a non-entity. His moment of note is him crying and almost breaking down when he discovers his wife's infidelity, babbling almost like a child. This would make him an interesting foil to Louis; both are somewhat immature, but while Louis's immaturity takes the form of petulant anger, Charles is more pitiable and sympathetic, almost innocent in juxtaposition to the scheming going on around him. He was also the Last of His Kind, the last Capet king of France, which also has potential for drama.
• The Woobie: There are several
  • Marie de Cressay is chastised for being in love with a "lowly" banker, despite her family being broke for generations and said union would save them from poverty. She's also forced to abandon Guccio, their baby is Switched at Birth with King Jehan and murdered. She's also scared and pressured to never tell Guccio any of this.
  • Clemence of Hungary is another. She's good and gentle, and everyone toys with her. She finds out her husband murdered his first wife to marry her, has trouble to conceive, and when she does her husband does and her son dies too. She never finds out her son actually survived.
  • Joan of Navarre, Louis X and Marguerite's daughter, has it bad. Her parents never particularly cared for her, her father rejects her as his wife's bastard after Marguerite's affair is exposed. She's mainly cared for by servants, and from a young age she knows there's no one who loves her. She could have been Queen of France in her own right, but her mother's affair makes her parentage dubious, so she's instead given Navarre mainly to keep her mother's family at bay.

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