Reign Recap Season 4 Episode 12 The Shakedown

Director: Norma Bailey

Writers: Patti Carr & Lara Olsen

Original Air Date: 12 Mary 2017 

I have finally realised that the way for me to enjoy these last few episodes of Reign is to, as much as possible, not think of them as the last few episodes of Reign. For most of the fourth season, I have been more than a little stressing over how the writers would wrap the story following the  show's cancellation. Now, I have decided to chill. Whether or not the show would be able to wrap all its threads neatly, whether or not the show would have time to present the final moments of Mary, whether or not our hearts would soar or be crushed by the finale (or both) matters not, for now. One episode at a time. One episode at a too quickly moving time. 

RECAP REIGN Season 4 Episode 11 Dead of Night

Director: Deborah Chow
Writers: Wendy Riss Gatsiounis & Drew Lindo
Original Air Date: 05 May 2017

Reign is Mary's show, and I write that as someone who worships the ground Catherine de Medici walks on, and who admires the shift to the story of the three Queens in the third season. We are already in the days of certain descent for Mary, and Adelaide Kane ruled her every scene. Episodes like this make me feel more keenly a fan's frustration that Reign is ending much too soon. It was written by Drew Lindo and Wendy Riss Gatsiounis, two of my favourite Reign writers. Though I watched the episode after working bloody overtime, I loved it.