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  EL CID SEASON TWO  

STARTS NEXT WEEK!

El Cid season two will start July 15th!

When I first announced this series a few years ago I told you it would consist of ten episodes, but when the first season of Amazon Prime's EL CID historical series started last December it had just five of them. It was because they have actually split them into two five episode seasons and this is why the second one is ready to launch next week, July 15th, just half a year after the end of the first one. I cannot say I was overly impressed with the opening chapter last winter, it was rather bland, lacking in glamour, originality, thrills,

Alfonso and Sancho are newly proclaimed kings!

and even the acting, costumes and sets were extremely subpar, but for some reason the historical saga, that brings the story of Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, a

Urraca will stay evil, while Jimena will keep dreaming of Rui

Castilian nobleman and war hero in medieval Spain, is continuing its run this summer, but I do feel it might be its last circle. Today you can check out

Sancha is getting a new daughter in law in Alberta

photos and trailer from the second season. Let us hope, the return will have better scripts, better acting and a better hairdo for the lead hero who was humiliated with the fugliest mullet in the first season, poor sod.

THE SECOND SEASON SHOULD

continue the story where it left off last December when King Fernando (Jose Perez), poisoned by his horrid daughter Urraca (Alicia Sanz) died and,

Forces of evil are still plotting around Rui and his king

instead of proclaiming his oldest son as his sole heir, divided the kingdom to all of his three sons Sancho (Francisco Ortiz), Alfonso (Jaime Olias) and

Rui is still faithfully serving prince Sancho, now a king

García (Nicolas Illoro) making them the new kings of Castilla, León and Galicia. Devious princess Urraca will continue to weave her dark plots in the

Alicia Sanz is back as evil and treacherous princess Uraca

shadows, while our hero Ruy (who, played by rather weak and non charismatic Jaime Lorente, did not even feel like the hero in the first season with not a lot of screen time) will have to fight to save the land, the royal family as well as

Amparo Alcaraz is Alberta, Sancho's new wife

his own one. Disputes between them will transform the Iberian Peninsula into a field of bloody battles despite Queen Sancha's (Elia Galera) attempts to stop an inevitable war between her own children. Ruy is knighted and is forced

Francisco Ortiz returns as hotheaded prince, now king Sancho

to make very difficult decisions, for which he will have to sacrifice what he loves most to become a true hero.  Actress Amparo Alcaraz has joined the cast as Alberta, the Saxon noblewoman who contracts a marriage of convenience with Sancho.