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The Worst Episodes of Medici: Masters of Florence

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Worst episode
S2E1 Old Scores
7.4522 votes
Best episode
S2E8 Mass
9.1641 votes
Top season
Season 3
8.3avg
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21h 16m
24 episodes
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 1 - Old Scores
    7.4/10(522 votes)

    S2:E1

    After a surprise attack, Lorenzo and Giuliano search for the culprits. The trail leads the brothers to the Pazzis, but treachery lies closer at hand.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 1 - Original Sin
    7.5/10(986 votes)

    S1:E1

    The Medici family suffers a great loss with the death of its patriarch Giovanni. When the designated heir Cosimo discovers that his father was poisoned, he decides to put Marco Bello on the assassin's trail.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 2 - Standing Alone
    7.7/10(437 votes)

    S2:E2

    Lorenzo's power play comes at a cost and stirs up outrage. With leadership comes sacrifice as he travels to Rome and weighs an advantageous match.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 2 - The Dome and the Domicile
    7.8/10(787 votes)

    S1:E2

    The war is throwing Florence into chaos. Piero, Cosimo's only son, is eager to fight. Meanwhile, Cosimo manages to "buy" the withdrawal of Milan's troops, thus saving the city, but in the meantime Florence has again fallen into the plague.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writers:Nicholas Meyer, Frank Spotnitz

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  5. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 3 - Pestilence
    7.8/10(711 votes)

    S1:E3

    Albizzi has managed to foment the citizenry against Cosimo, accusing him of the crime of usury. When Cosimo learns of the situation, he decides to return to Florence. Albizzi then invents a ploy to get Cosimo arrested and held for trial.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 3 - Obstacles and Opportunities
    7.8/10(416 votes)

    S2:E3

    The death of the pope brings strategic challenges as Lorenzo negotiates with the Duke of Milan and welcomes his new bride, Clarice, to Florence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 4 - Judgement Day
    7.9/10(682 votes)

    S1:E4

    From prison, Cosimo asks Contessina to try bribing a member of the Signoria, to buy votes in his favor. Albizzi starts poisoning Cosimo's food through his prison guard. Contessina negotiates exile rather than the death penalty.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 5 - Temptation
    7.9/10(667 votes)

    S1:E5

    While the Medici are in exile in Venice, the situation deteriorates day by day in Florence, with Albizzi imposing his rule over a city gravely depleted by the absence of the Medici.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 4 - Blood with Blood
    7.9/10(423 votes)

    S2:E4

    Lorenzo aims to strengthen ties with the Pazzis and proposes a treaty with Venice. Clarice appeals to Lucrezia and learns the way to Lorenzo's heart.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 5 - Ties That Bind
    7.9/10(405 votes)

    S2:E5

    In opposition to the pope, Lorenzo moves quickly to acquire the strategic city of Imola. A forbidden love flowers between Giuliano and Simonetta.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 7 - Purgatory
    8.0/10(615 votes)

    S1:E7

    The Signoria now has a vacant chair, and Cosimo is asked to choose who should occupy it. Piero thinks that his moment has now come, but the banker Pazzi, too, has his eyes set on that seat.

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 6 - Alliance
    8.0/10(424 votes)

    S2:E6

    The papal army advances as important coalitions shift. Meanwhile, Lorenzo negotiates a crucial treaty, and Jacopo attempts a major power grab.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 6 - A Man of No Importance
    8.1/10(317 votes)

    S3:E6

    Lorenzo begins to show the first symptoms of a serious illness while his political enemies decide to attack him, questioning the solidity and provenance of Medici Bank's capital. Among these, Tommaso Peruzzi, once a supporter of the family, is now eager to bring to light a scandal that would condemn the Medici to exile. To cover up the crime and avoid losses, the Magnificent risks a new war and plans to kill Peruzzi.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 4 - Innocent
    8.1/10(322 votes)

    S3:E4

    Seven years have passed and Lorenzo hopes to close the accounts with the Pope by obtaining the signing of a peace treaty between the various Italian rulers. Riario hopes to induce Lorenzo to return to open war. While the Magnificent faces this new diplomatic crisis, his mother Lucrezia involves Clarice in the management of the bank. Worn out by the constant clash with Sixtus IV, Lorenzo decides to start his son Giovanni on an ecclesiastical career hoping to increase the influence of the Medici in the Roman Curia. The Treaty of Bagnolo, signed by all the Italian rulers, marks the triumph of the Medici family and Lorenzo, who has become the deciding vote of Italian politics.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 5 - The Holy See
    8.2/10(331 votes)

    S3:E5

    Sixtus IV is dead. Lorenzo and Clarice travel to Rome to support the election of their candidate for the papal throne, but they have to deal with the plots of Riario. The Medici find an unexpected ally in Caterina Sforza, Riario's wife. Despite the family's efforts, the new Pope Cybo proves difficult to control. In Florence, Savonarola harangues against Lorenzo for his influence in the conclave.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Guy Burt

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  16. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 2 - The Ten
    8.2/10(349 votes)

    S3:E2

    The entry into the field of the Kingdom of Naples alongside the papal troops is likely to mark the end of Florence. Among the Priors there are those who doubt Lorenzo, but the Magnificent, determined not to let Florence fall into the hands of his enemies, finds a stratagem to deprive the Priors of authority. Lorenzo decides to leave for Naples to try to break the encirclement and restore peace.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 1 - Survival
    8.2/10(386 votes)

    S3:E1

    A few months after the Pazzi Conspiracy, Lorenzo is still animated by the spirit of revenge. There is a distant clash between Lorenzo and Pope Sixtus IV; the cruel count Riario - the last of the conspirators left alive - tries to take advantage of this conflict. A Dominican friar arrives in Florence who seems capable of reading Lorenzo's heart: Girolamo Savonarola.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  18. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 7 - Lost Souls
    8.3/10(323 votes)

    S3:E7

    Savonarola, who had taken Tommaso's confession, denounces his killing and openly accuses Lorenzo, who however continues to deny. Clarice begins to suspect the truth. To continue his strategy of control over the Holy See, the Magnificent makes a promise that triggers a family crisis.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 3 - Trust
    8.3/10(354 votes)

    S3:E3

    Arriving in Naples with Bernardi, Lorenzo finds it difficult to convince King Ferrante of Aragon to abandon the alliance with the Pope. While the Magnificent tries to win the king's trust, Florence remains under siege: the people and Clarice herself fear that Lorenzo has abandoned them.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Guy Burt

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  20. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 6 - Ascendancy
    8.3/10(679 votes)

    S1:E6

    The return of the Medici to Florence is an out-and-out triumph, with Albizzi in prison for his attempt to become the city's "tyrant".

    Director:Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 7 - Betrayal
    8.5/10(429 votes)

    S2:E7

    As forces threaten a fragile alliance, the Pazzis embark on a murderous plan to destroy the Medicis while Lorenzo seeks to make peace with Rome.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 1 Episode 8 - Epiphany
    8.5/10(743 votes)

    S1:E8

    Pazzi has managed to convince the Pope to remove the Medici as Church bankers, but Cosimo is disinclined to surrender what he has worked so hard to attain.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 3 Episode 8 - The Fate of the City
    8.7/10(423 votes)

    S3:E8

    Lorenzo allows Bernardi to convince him that the only solution not to lose everything is to kill Savonarola, whose following gets bigger and bigger. By now, the friar openly preaches the overthrow of the established order to found a new Jerusalem. Lorenzo's plan is ready and the assassins recruited ...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Medici: Masters of Florence Season 2 Episode 8 - Mass
    9.1/10(641 votes)

    S2:E8

    The day of reckoning arrives as the circle of conspirators tightens around the Medicis during Mass, and rivals attempt to take control of Florence.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Old Scores" is the worst rated episode of Medici: Masters of Florence. It scored 7.4/10 from 522 votes. Written and directed by Unknown, it aired on October 23, 2018. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Original Sin".

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