“There can only be one queen.”

The narrative question in Reign splitting up its queens is how it would balance their stories. “Intruders” tackles it…

There’s a particular rhythm to a typical episode of Game Of Thrones: the balance of plot twists and inevitable blows, a…

“Too many terrible things have happened today.”

“And as a lady to the Queen of Scots, you’re nothing but a pawn in this. You poor fool.”

For all the time spent on romance in this show, Reign’s heart has always belonged to its women, and their hearts have…

Sometimes there’s an episode of Reign that makes you think about the architecture underneath the show. And then…

It’s often hard to explain why you watch a show like Reign. Prestige TV it’s not. It doesn’t even have Jane The Virgin…

Of all the unconquerable odds Reign goes up against every week in terms of balancing its disparate elements, this week…

Reign is such over-the-top fun to watch and such a bear to recap; some episodes you end up feeling like the show’s…

Reign is always trying to dance on lightbulbs. Secret history, actual history, romance, fantasy, court intrigue; it’s a…

A secret history is a tricky thing. The best secret histories, no matter how satirical, have a keen sense of the import…

Some shows are easy to grade; they make their own rubric from the available resources, and reach their potential to a…

It’s fascinating to watch an episode of the show as momentous as this one in which so much hinges on the uncanny valley…

Reign this season has ad habit of backloading its big moments and filling much of the first two acts with what amounts…

At the end of “Extreme Measures,” Lola marries Narcisse—a man who, just last episode, arranged to put a rat in her…

It always feels like too soon to tell what a Reign season intends to do; it blows through plot with such vigor that it…

At the high point of this episode—or, quite possibly, the high point of any episode this show will ever present to…