SBS on Demand: Medici: The Magnificent

Italian historical drama Medici: The Magnificent returns for its second season at SBS on Demand.

This takes place 20 years after the first season, is in English and premiered internationally a year ago.

All eight episodes available to stream.

In 1470, Piero (Julian Sands) and Lucrezia (Sarah Parish) are the heads of the family. The Medici family’s power has now been consolidated over time, but an attempt on Piero’s life reveals years of poor bank management, and his first-born son Lorenzo (Daniel Sharman) is called to take his father’s place sooner than planned.

Despite Lorenzo’s long-term affair with a married woman, Lucrezia Donati (Alessandra Mastronardi), he agrees to marry a noble woman from Rome, Clarice Orsini (Synnøve Karlsen). As the new head of the family, he is also responsible for the destinies of his brother Giuliano (Bradley James) and his sister Bianca, while his friendship with Sandro Botticelli (Sebastian de Souza) gives life to some of the finest masterpieces of the Renaissance.

Lorenzo’s dream of a peaceful Florence is challenged by his greatest rival, Jacopo De’ Pazzi (Sean Bean) and the plotting Pope Sixtus, bringing Florence to one of the bloodiest moments in its history – The Pazzi Conspiracy.

Thursday, 24 October at on SBS On Demand