Reign Season 4

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After four seasons, Reign aired its series finale on The CW on Friday night, bringing Mary’s (Adelaide Kane) story to an end. We’d say spoiler alert, but, like, read a history book once in a while, kids!

As expected, and has it happened in real-life, Reign’s finale ended just how Mary’s life did: she was beheaded in 1587, with the show staging a 21 year time-jump in the final moments. And insanely enough, Mary and her cousin Queen Elizabeth (Rachel Karsten) never came face-to-face, despite Mary becoming Elizabeth’s prisoner.

Prior to the time-jump, and Mary’s execution, viewers see her arrested for her hand in the murder of her husband Lord Darnley (Will Kemp), after he becomes sick with syphilis and kidnaps their son, James. (In real-life, she went on to marry Bothwell [Adam Croasdell], who murdered Darnley, prior to her imprisonment for being found guilty of plotting to assassinate her cousin.)

And in the 21 years, Mary, then 44, never got to see James again, though he did plead with Elizabeth to spare his mother’s life. “I often wonder what choice she had,” he says, when a bitter Queen Elizabeth says Mary’s choices “ruined” her.

-by TIERNEY BRICKER

Reign — “Banished” — Image Number: RE212a_0095.jpg — Pictured (L-R): Adelaide Kane as Mary, Queen of Scotland and France, Celina Sinden as Greer, Anna Popplewell as Lola and Caitlin Stasey as Kenna — Photo: Sven Frenzel/The CW — © 2014 The CW Network, LLC. All rights reserved.

On the surface, CW’s historical drama Reign gets a lot of things wrong. Like, a whole lot. The series is based ever-so-loosely on the life of Mary Stuart, otherwise known as the Queen of Scots, and it isn’t exactly what you’d call historically accurate. It recounts several of the most basic details of Mary’s (Adelaide Kane) life incorrectly, and it frequently makes up additions that just didn’t happen at all. These include everything from embellished historical backstories and all new characters to supernatural elements like vengeful ghosts and life-threatening druid prophecies. The show even invents an illegitimate half-brother named Bash (Torrence Coombs) for Mary’s promised prince and eventual husband Francis (Toby Regbo), just so that the three can engage in the standard love triangle that usually forms the backbone of any CW series.

– Lacy Baugher

It’s sometimes tricky to champion Reign. It burns plot at an incredible and sometimes exhausting rate; its handling of serious character beats has been uneven; its cast rotates perhaps more often than is wise. However, when it’s firing on all cylinders, this show is fun as hell, and “With Friends Like These” is Reign at its best—a checklist of murders, some broken engagements, some convenient lapses of institutional memory, a little camp, and some earnest reworking of history that draws the new playing field for its queens.

-Genevieve Valentine

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Actors: Various
Directors: Various
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 3
Rated: PG-13 Parents Strongly Cautioned
Studio: WarnerBrothers
DVD Release Date: October 10, 2017
Run Time: 675 minutes
ASIN: B072ZLXZWF