What is Reign about?
Mary, Queen of Scots, faces political and sexual intrigue in the treacherous world of the French court.
Reign (2013)
A young queen navigates a French court brimming with political and romantic intrigue, all with a melancholy, campy charm.
A date-night pick at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.
Streaming on Prime Video.
Reign parents guide
Heads up on moderate sex and nudity. That is past what the TV-14 on the box suggests. Beyond that, mild language and some violence.
Our estimate: fine from about 16, higher than the TV-14 suggests, because of the sex and nudity.
- Scare
- Not scary
- Jump scares
- None noted
- Gore
- No gore
- Violence
- Some violence
- Some fighting or peril.
- Sex and nudity
- Moderate
- Moderate means a sex scene or nudity on screen, even brief, or sexual violence that is described or implied but never shown.
- Language
- Mild
- Mild words like damn, hell or crap.
How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.
Cast and crew
Created byLaurie McCarthy, Stephanie Sengupta
StarringAdelaide Kane, Will Kemp, Dan Jeannotte, Megan Follows, Celina Sinden, Craig Parker
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