Reign
By all logic, I should hate Reign. Instead, I seem to have found a new addiction. The new CW show is about the young Mary Queen of Scots, when she goes to the French court to marry the Dauphin. In...
View ArticleReign: Left Behind
My initial enjoyment of Reign, despite its complete lack of any vague historical accuracy, has grown into a full-level obsession. The show has been criticized as a 16th century Gossip Girl, and...
View ArticleReign: Sacrifice (or Thoughts on Mary’s Ladies)
I’ve written before about my (totally surprised and initially reluctant) love of the new CW show Reign. An interesting debate has emerged in one of my previous posts about whether Reign is a feminist...
View ArticleReign: Inquisition (or the one where I actually talk about history)
How can Reign be so generally historically inaccurate, and yet capture the spirit of political life for women during the Tudor period so well? The characters march around the castle in modern couture...
View ArticleReign Season One
Who would have thought that Reign would turn out to be one of the most enjoyable shows of the year? Sure, it’s not perfect. It’s certainly not historically accurate. But it is a fun fantastical drama...
View ArticleReign: Acts of War
This post has massive spoilers for the latest episode. Spoilers and ranting and a huge huge trigger warning. When I first heard the spoiler that Mary was going to be raped in an upcoming episode of...
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