I definitely mentioned Lily's reviews at some point! I am always excited for more people to read them! ;)

No, it was definitely mentioned last season that her family is incredibly wealthy but untitled. Her main filial duty was to marry a titled man so that her family could gain that last rung of respectability.

There's plenty of fanfiction that is better than some of the garbage that gets published. Let us never forget that Fifty Shades of Grey was once Twilight fanfic. If you don't think there's better stuff on FFN or AO3 then it's only because you've never bothered to look. (Which maybe you haven't. And that's fine. But…

From what I remember of the prophecy, they were lying in bed together talking about their imaginary children and he started ear-bleeding all over the place and she was sobbing that a year and a half of marriage wasn't enough. So I don't recall them seeming like they'd had a falling out.

Every time we see Mary's dog, my soul is uplifted! lol

So he was killed in the Italian wars! So perhaps Marcus is meant to be Jean? Though Saint-Quentin is in France not Italy (but grasping that parts of the Italian wars did not actually take place in Italy seems a bit beyond Reign's ken). Antoine did mention Marcus having a wife!

Very true. But the plot with the ghost twins was getting very tiresome. Especially because it isolated her from the other characters and kept her from throwing all kinds of shade at them all the time.

As for their "brother Marcus" he could technically either be their brother Francois who did fight in the Italian wars but died in 1546, or their brother Jean who does not have a wikipedia page because the world hates me so I don't know anything about him except he died in 1557 at the age of 29, or perhaps a…

According to the Reign wiki, Bash was born in 1540 (making him 19 on the show currently). The show supposedly picked up in the year 1557, so if he had been in Italy a year earlier at the age of 16, that is not terribly unreasonable. However, also according to the Reign wiki, Claude is 15. (Presumably because she has…

Also (still me, you guys, not sure why the first comment didn't post with my avatar thing), is there no fallout to the fact that Mary publicly announced Claude and Conde's engagement not very long ago? I know Conde wrote in his secret love letter to Mary that he couldn't marry Claude, but… Was there an announcement?…

Emma of Normandy?

So the thing that has been bothering me all season has been the blackmailing of Francis about his murder of Henry. Is there any legitimate historical reason that Francis should be concerned about the blackmail? (I don't mean legitimate in the sense that I think Francis really killed Henry because obviously not, but…

This show has truly had everything in the past four weeks: Lord Grantham, Ricky Gervais/Weird Al, and now Giles! As deeply silly as this show has been, I think I have laughed aloud at least as many times as I have rolled my eyes, so I am calling it a win. I agree that ending on a cliffhanger was an insanely ballsy…

I watched In Your Eyes on Netflix recently and liked Zoe Kazan a lot, so recently I've been imagining her in the role. Although I think one of the most important things will be finding an actress who shares the right type of on-screen chemistry with Mads Mikkelson. I desperately hope NBC holds on to this show long…

Fantasy casting Clarice on this show is always fun. I definitely see the appeal of Gina Rodriguez (as you mentioned downthread) as Clarice, though her face seems maybe too cheerful to me? That could just be because I have mostly only seen her smiling in JtV promos or smiling at the Golden Globes. I have thought about…

I was wondering about this too, though I don't think she would have been living in/near the castle at the time of the twins' deaths (based on the info Nostradamus gave us, which I'm sure the show is not above ret-conning). I wondered if Clarissa could somehow be responsible for Catherine's hallucinations, though.…

Claude threw a brie at Kenna! That is a crime against cheese right there!

Mary indeed had some excellent dresses last night. Meanwhile, Kenna is now so poor that she spent the whole episode in the same outfit and was just covering it up with a blanket by the end.

Leith-haters unite! I am so over whatever tension they are trying to pretend is simmering between him and Greer. Just move on, everyone!

I would suggest finishing the second season so that you can see the Mason Verger storyline. The show veered perhaps harder than usual into the surreal with the horse episode and the predator-suit episode, but grounded itself a little better once it got into Mason Verger's story. Plus the finale is just a goddamn…