“Reign” may be a historical drama, but it’s probably crazier and soapier than any other CW show. Here are some of the biggest OMG moments from the show’s four seasons ahead of its series finale.
Where to start but with that time the King of France so thoroughly enjoyed a rendezvous with his mistress that he accidentally humped her right out a window and to her death. Man we’re gonna miss this show.
“Reign” once devoted a whole story arc to whether a ghost lived in the castle walls. As it happens, the ghost turned out to be a masked, horribly disfigured girl named Clarissa, a secret love child of Queen Catherine who was mysteriously killed and then whose body mysteriously disappeared. So she’s definitely still out there and may be a ghost again, to bring it all full circle.
What’s a royal court without a little incest? The sheer delight that Claude takes in taunting Bash about tricking him into sleeping with her without knowing they’re siblings is extreme, even for this castle of scandal and horrors.
Mary and Catherine went from enemies to something like allies as time went on, but nobody could have predicted they would one day team up to spank an S&M-loving suitor of Mary’s. The whole crazy ordeal was capped off when the dude got a little too into it and was impaled on his own “sex horse.” The 1 percent really do live different lives from the rest of us.
Lord Narcisse is one of the shrewdest political operators on “Reign,” so no one should really be surprised that he once presented Queen Mary with a pair of a rival’s testicles in a box. Because that happened.
Mary is no stranger to doing whatever it takes to survive and maintain her power, but things got insane when she confronted Munro, the man who killed Francis. The Queen personally murdered him via stab to the neck with her own pointy necklace. Pretty badass.
“Reign” went a bit off the rails in a bad way when the writers decided to have Queen Mary brutally raped in Season 2. The episode was accompanied by a PSA by star Adelaide Kane, who later described the scene as “the worst thing I’ve ever filmed in my life.” Critics blasted the move as using sexual assault as a plot point, especially since there is no historical evidence for such a depiction.