“Reign”: Mary Queen Of Scots Absurdity
I’m so sick of the way that historical dramas set in Europe during the early modern period — “The Tudors,” “Da Vinci’s Demons” — become little more than tawdry bodice-ripping intrigues. The latest abomination, according to this review, is called “Reign”: ‘Apparently Mary, Queen of Scots is too boring for series creator Laurie McCarthy, so she constructs a ridiculous love triangle around young, dumb Mary and hires an actress who thinks teenage girls aren’t into, you know, being educated. That’s why they’ll accept a wafer thin slice of sugary stupidity like ‘Reign’ and the United States can continue its precipitous slide down the intelligence rankings of first world countries.’
