Reign Report: “The Lamb and the Slaughter”

Last night, literally everything that could possibly happen on an episode of Reign happened. Over at the AV Club, I ding it for being overstuffed, even though I give it points for trying to have an episode overtly about women negotiating relationships based on limited choices, even if it ended with Narcisse standing over the body of his wife and confiding in Lola, who I swear has gotten more romantic bounce-around than literally anyone else on this show.
It was also a christening, which meant a parade of costumes, the best of which was without a doubt Mary’s red gown, worn here as she and Lola make up after their fight, but definitely highlighting exactly what their power differential is, and the reason this fight will come up again.
So many costumes in one episode would normally would make me very excited except that there was so much else going on I could hardly concentrate.
This butter baby, for example, which was so amazing that they devoted a whole beat to Bash just staring at… Read more »