The WORST episodes of The Musketeers
Every episode of The Musketeers ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Musketeers!
Set in 17th century Paris, musketeers Athos, Porthos, Aramis and D’Artagnan are members of an elite band of soldiers who fight for what is just. They are heroes in the truest and most abiding sense – men that can be trusted an believed in to do the right thing, regardless of personal risk.
#1 - The Homecoming
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/23/2014
Porthos wakes up from his drunken birthday celebrations with no memory of the night before, and with a dead body by his side. After being unjustly sentenced to death, he is abducted to the dangerous Court of Miracles. In their investigation to prove his innocence, the Musketeers uncover a tangled web of divided loyalties and greed, and they risk their lives to infiltrate the unruly slums of the Court of Miracles before it's too late.
#2 - Friends and Enemies
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/2014
The brightest and best musketeers of the King's Regiment - Athos, Porthos and Aramis - are dispatched by Captain Treville to find a missing musketeer carrying important letters on behalf of King Louis. Meanwhile, d'Artagnan travels from his family farm in Gascony to Paris to petition the king, but his peaceful plans are turned upside down.
#3 - Sleight of Hand
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/2014
Notorious criminal Vadim seeks to make life unbearable for the authorities that have imprisoned him. When he engineers a full-scale riot, it falls to the Musketeers to protect those whom he seeks to destroy.
#4 - Commodities
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/2/2014
The Musketeers are dispatched to Le Havre to collect the infamous merchant trader and explorer, Bonnaire and bring him back to Paris to be reprimanded for breaking France's trade treaty. This straightforward mission soon descends into a treacherous battle, as they must defeat Bonnaire's surprising number of enemies. Athos is forced to confront his past, which threatens to engulf him.
#5 - The Challenge
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/16/2014
The Musketeers are tasked with bringing the fearsome Labarge, a regional intendant under arrest for the murder of two Musketeers, to Paris. The Red Guards, resentful of the Musketeers' handling of him, initiate a vicious fight between the two regiments. Fed up with the disruptive rivalry between the Musketeers and the Red Guards, the King calls a contest to prove which group is the stronger. D'Artagnan is determined to be chosen to fight so that he can prove himself worthy to be a Musketeer.
#6 - The Exiles
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/2/2014
Aramis and D’Artagnan have troubles transporting a young woman and her baby from a village outside Paris. The King’s royal hunting party is disrupted by the appearance of Louis’ banished mother seeking royal protection from an unknown assassin.
#7 - The Good Soldier
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 2/9/2014
When Aramis's old friend and former musketeer, Marsac, unexpectedly returns to Paris, the musketeers are thrown into turmoil, fully aware that they should report him for desertion. His appearance coincides with the royal visit of the King's beloved sister and her husband, the Duke of Savoy, whom the musketeers must protect. Marsac believes he finally knows the truth behind the infamous massacre which killed his troop, and wants Aramis's help to prove it.
#8 - Brothers in Arms
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/20/2016
Under orders, the Musketeers defend Louis’ traitorous brother Gaston after he slaughters a band of veteran soldiers in a Paris tavern.
#9 - A Marriage of Inconvenience
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/2015
The King’s cousin is ambushed while under Musketeer escort as she travels from Mantua to Sweden to make a political marriage that will be advantageous to France. The Musketeers must quickly discover who is targeting her to keep both her and the alliance between countries protected. However it emerges that other important figures at Court also appear to be in danger. Who is the killer and could he already be inside the Palace walls?
#10 - A Rebellious Woman
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/9/2014
Following the tragic death of a young girl underneath the royal carriage, The Musketeers’ investigations into her missing friend lead them into the world of a high-born and enlightened woman. The Musketeers are forced to put aside their animosity towards the Cardinal when his life is placed in danger and they must rescue this extraordinary woman.
#11 - Knight Takes Queen
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/23/2014
Queen Anne’s taking of the waters is cut short when her life is put in mortal danger. King Louis dines with wealthy German banker Count Mellendorf, who is looking for a French match for his beautiful daughter. As the Musketeers try to spirit Anne back to Paris, they’re forced to seek refuge in a fortified convent, where Aramis comes face to face with his past.
#12 - Keep Your Friends Close
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/2/2015
The Musketeers must rescue a French general from an impenetrable Spanish prison.
#13 - Through a Glass Darkly
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/2015
An astronomer gathers the royal party to see an eclipse, but events take a dramatic turn.
#14 - The Good Traitor
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/16/2015
The Musketeers help rescue an enemy's daughter in exchange for a deadly gunpowder formula.
#15 - Emilie
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2015
A woman claims to have visions from God which instruct her to start a war with Spain.
#16 - The Return
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/2015
Athos must confront his past to protect the people he left behind.
#17 - An Ordinary Man
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/9/2015
D'Artagnan must protect King Louis when a notorious criminal kidnaps them both.
#18 - Spoils of War
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 5/28/2016
Athos, Porthos and D'Artagnan are fighting on the battlefront while Aramis has trouble living in contemplation as a monk. The Musketeers' search for missing gunpowder lead them to follow bandits to Aramis' monastery, where circumstance force them to collaborate to save the monastery's children and brothers. Aramis' finally accepts his true calling as a Musketeer and rejoins his brothers-in-arms in Paris.
#19 - Musketeers Don't Die Easily
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/30/2014
Athos takes a woman hostage in the square and the Musketeers are amazed to discover he is threatening none other than Milady. Athos is furious when he finds out that D’Artagnan knows her, testing their friendship to its limits. The Cardinal, fearful the Musketeers will prove he masterminded the attempt on the Queen’s life, compels Milady to kill them by any means. Milady has no choice but to revisit her dark past and in doing so puts Constance into danger. The Musketeers must use all their wits and courage to outsmart her and save Constance.
#20 - To Play the King
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/3/2016
The Musketeers battle to restore order in Paris after Grimaud and Feron stage an ambitious Châtelet breakout, setting free a lunatic with murderous designs on the Louvre.
#21 - The Hunger
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/11/2016
The corrupt Governor of Paris conspires with the Duke de Beaufort, primary provider of food for Paris, to stage a robbery of the city's granary and pin it on the refugees, only to later sell the stolen grain back to the King at an inflated price. D'Artagnan is taken captive along with the rioting refugees, and the other Musketeers (along with D'Artagnan's wife Constance, now in charge of the Musketeer garrison) must rescue them from the hands of the Red Guard before they are executed.
#22 - The Queen's Diamonds
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/25/2016
The future of the English monarchy rests on the Musketeers’ shoulders when Louis orders them to recover his sister the Queen of England’s missing crown jewels. It’s a daunting mission, made more complicated when they unmask the thief - the irrepressible Emile Bonnaire.
#23 - Prisoners of War
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/23/2016
The Queen's reputation is on the line after Grimaud kidnaps Aramis.
#24 - Fool's Gold
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/16/2016
Chasing Grimaud, the Musketeers make a troubling discovery in a village ruled by women.
#25 - The Accused
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/20/2015
The Musketeers must put their lives on the line when the Queen is accused of treason. They have no choice but to steal her away from the Palace to safety, while they search for evidence to prove that Rochefort is a Spanish spy. However it soon transpires that nobody is safe from Rochefort’s grasp, not even the King, with devastating consequences.