How Many Great Shows Do You Watch On Netflix Each Week?

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How Many Great Shows Do You Watch On Netflix Each Week?

There’s so much TV to choose from that it’s really easy to get stuck on what to start watching. But we’re here to make your streaming dreams come true by choosing what to watch for you. Every week, we put together a list of three great shows you should watch.

We mix shows that have recently come onto the service with some old favorites you might have missed. From a new season of The Great British Baking Show to The CW’s underrated royal drama Reign, here are three great TV shows you can binge-watch on Netflix this week:

What Is The Name Of The Cw Drama That Offers A Mary Queen Of Scots History In 30 Seconds?

But since you’re reading this on a device with access to all the sex you could ever want to see, I’m going to assume you aren’t tuning into network TV to get your jollies. That’s smart, because there isn’t even that much sex on “Reign.” And there are many better reasons to watch the historic drama, kind of a lighter, girlier “Game of Thrones.”

She leads a cast that manages not to look hilariously out of place while appealing to the CW’s 18-34 demographic. “Reign” is nowhere near as good as “Thrones” — how many shows are? — but it’s enough fun to tide you over until the Lannisters & Co. return to HBO. The CW series does a fairly effortless-looking job of combining a 16th-century setting with a fluid, modern dynamic.

Like Carrie, she does a lot of dressing up in cool clothes. The show gets to the drama quickly, and doesn’t sugarcoat things. Some of these problems might seem easily resolvable – why can’t Mary just date the hunky bastard and Scotland and France agree to be friends even without an alliance through marriage?

No one in the cast is bad to look at, either: Kane in particular has a gift for looking beautiful and overwhelmed by beauty at the same time. It makes it easy to understand why Francis can’t quit Mary, and France and Scotland just might work it out. “Reign” premieres Thursday at 9/8c.

What Is Reign’S Trademark Cw Entertainment?

REIGN is trademark CW entertainment, taking a questionably marketable concept and dressing it up with enough sex, sabotage, mystery, stunningly gorgeous cast members, and more sex that teens will flock to it. This is no history lesson; in fact it’s such a trampling of historical facts that if a statute of limitations still existed on the characters’ likenesses, lawsuits would ensue. Some are entirely contrived –- including the essential piece to the gripping love triangle, Bash -– and others are rewritten to ensure good drama, most notably the historically inaccurate, strapping specimen of Francis.

What Reign does manage to do is use superb cinematography and a magnificent musical score to modernize a 16th-century story enough that teens -– most of whom aren’t exactly prone to loving historical dramas –- will want to watch. On the upside, this may spark an interest in learning the real stories of these (and perhaps other) historical figures. On the downside, it relies heavily on racy sexual and violent content to keep them on the edges of their seats and wanting more.

What Age Group Does This Show Appeal To?

Appropriate for Older Teens. I love the fact that this show sparked a lot of interest for me towards history and different eras. I completely understand that this particular drama is based, but not remotely accurate in terms of the history of the roles they represent.

It is television. It is not aired for an audience wanting to educate themselves on the era, but rather get a feel for how different their world was to ours and how their struggles are very different yet very much the same. It is an opportunity to connect with different ideas.

Who Created A Fictional Love Triangle In Reign?

The previously unknown and untold story of Mary Queen of Scots’ rise to power when she arrives in France as a 15-year-old, betrothed to Prince Francis, and with her three best friends as ladies-in-waiting. In fact, just last week I made fun of Tomorrow People because, like so many shows on The CW, it was exponentially ridiculous. The Bottom Line Apparently Mary, Queen of Scots is too boring for series creator Laurie McCarthy, so she constructs a ridiculous love triangle around young, dumb Mary and hires an actress who thinks teenage girls aren’t into, you know, being educated.

Well, that’s what I got out of the pilot, anyway. Oh, and Nostradamus is a hunk. I mean, this is a woman who will be introducing into the world “Hunky Nostradamus” — a stretch that even by the standards of The CW is offensive.

“How many teenage girls do you know who are obsessed with history?” Kane asked. Perhaps she was off taking acting classes instead of trying to lead an examined life.

Further stretching the boundaries of historical absurdism, McCarthy has created an entirely fictional love triangle in Reign. Then there’s Wooden Mary (Kane) and Francis’ half-brother, the bastard Bash (Torrance Coombs), who never existed. And let’s call the made-up brother Bash.

Seriously, CW. The list of people who should be outraged at The CW, at McCarthy and Kane, goes beyond teenage girls with a brain, the parents of any self-respecting young woman, smart people in general, history buffs and America at large, but also Scotland and France. The French are decidedly English.

Remember when girls could be badass and smart?