- Summary: Set in the 16th century, this costume drama follows the (highly fictionalized) teenage years of Mary, Queen of Scots, played by Teen Wolf's Adelaide Kane.
- Genre(s): Drama, Fantasy
- Show Type: Hasn't Aired
- Season 1 premiere date: Oct 17, 2013
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 6 out of 13
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Mixed: 6 out of 13
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Negative: 1 out of 13
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83It's Pretty Little Liars meets Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, and it's good, frothy fun.
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75History aside, Reign, created by Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie SenGupta, is not only engaging but also pretty classy for a CW production.
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75The script by Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie SenGupta never finds a wholly convincing Venn diagram intersection between period piece and teen soap, but it also doesn’t bother trying, hoping it can turn insane tonal shifts into a virtue by stepping on the gas. That this approach mostly works is thanks to their script being unafraid to unleash the crazy and the surprisingly beautiful direction from Brad Silberling, who makes the most of an Irish location shoot the rest of the series won’t have the advantage of.
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58Once you get past the utter silliness of the idea, Reign is kind of a kick.
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50Reign looks good (the pilot was shot in Ireland), moves smoothly and features CW’s characteristic bland but competent performances.
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50History fans will scoff at this rendition of a famous story and the target audience won’t give a royal tweet about it.
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10What The CW is doing here (and Kane perpetuates with her take on teenage girls and their intelligence) is approaching television with the perspective that the target audience is profoundly idiotic.