Bye-Bye Reign

Hey People,

Okay I know I promised you a diary, but here me out. After watching the amazing Outlander and other shows, I feel I need to step up my TV show quality. There are a lot of great shows and there are a lot of okay shows. I don't think I have time for the okay ones anymore. 

Reign is an okay show. It's not a must see and it's not something I would recommend people should watch, but if someone was interested in it, I wouldn't say not to watch it either. I'm looking for great, must see shows and after 2 years of watching it. I just don't see that happening. 

I was watching the latest episode when I noticed that I wasn't paying attention to what was happening that's when I know something is wrong.

If anything, I hope they end the season with Francis dying and stay true to history. It would definitely be a bold move, but this show needs bold moves to keep it interesting. At least they already know there will be a 3rd season.

I need to find another show to write a diary about, which isn't easy folks since I like mythological shows and I rather review and discuss theories than write a diary about them.

Luv ya,

            Diva

Previously On Thursday...

Hey People,

Finally, Reign is back. It's been so long I don't even know what happened last.

Reign S2 E17 Diary

Luv ya,

            Diva

Reign S2 E17 Diary

Dear Diary,

No one has mentioned a party yet so I might be in the clear this week. I did however need to help move Bash's things into another room. What are with these brothers? First Mary and Francis and now Bash and Kenna, but since Bash is the one moving out, Kenna is probably the one at fault. It probably has something to do with Anthony. They were rather close, if you know what I mean.

I know this may be a bit random, but Mary has been going to the chapel a lot. Not like there's anything wrong with that it's just very suspicious. I didn't think Mary loved God that much. Once I saw Louis go in there too. I thought he was a Protestant. I'm so confused right now.

Claude has her eyes set on Narcisse. I saw her walk into his room early in the morning. She always tries to upset her mother. Later in the day, I saw Narcisse entering Catherine's chambers. I didn't know Narcisse was a narc (see what I did there Diary?), but he is Francis's bitch now so it makes sense. I hear Claude has a new babysitter, Leith. Now I catch her looking at him as if he will be her next conquest. This girl needs to settle down.

Francis is sick, but nothing serious. Just has an ear infection, but Catherine was acting like the boy was going to die any minute. I swear, I thought she was over her craziness, but I guess she was crazy to begin with. Hopefully, Narcisse can come her the fuck down.

Luv ya,
            Diva

P.S. I made it without putting up any decorations. Hallelujah!

Previously On Thursday...

Hey People,

Reign S2 E16 Diary

S2 E15

I don't mind recap episodes which is basically what The Blacklist did last week with a mix of a case-of-the-week. I don't mind it at all even though they're only in the 2nd season so it may be a little too early for one, but still whatever. What I do mind is how you tell a recap. If Liz was telling this all to a therapist that would have been fine, but when a judge was asking her questions that had nothing to do with the case, I wanted to to shoot him. Most of the time I was yelling at him saying, "What does this have to do with the dead guy?" The judge even says, "Maybe we've gone off topic." No shit. I hope someone kills this judge tonight because he's been nothing but annoying. I don't understand why Liz didn't just say she was holding Tom as a hostage to get information from him on the whereabouts of Berlin and he killed the guy because he knew she couldn't do it. No other information needed and it's the truth. Like seriously what does The Fulcrum have do with this? Okay, I'm done.

Anyway, we find out Tom was trained to be in deep undercover and that's all he's ever known. Red hired him to watch over Liz, we still don't know why >:| but Berlin paid double for Tom to look after her for him. In the end, Tom fell for Liz and now Tom is in Germany doing #whothefuckcares.

Dembe suggested some truth to Red--tell Liz everything. I hope Red actually does because I don't know if I can go another season without knowing. It would feel too much like Pretty Little Liars and how they will never reveal who A is until the series finale and by then #whothefuckcares. I don't want TBL to go down the same road.

But seriously, even if I didn't particularly like parts of this episode it's still a good show and I'm enjoying this half of the season more than the first half. If any of my readers haven't started this show and are interested, tryout this episode and you'll be caught up. It explains everything that has happened previously.

Luv ya,
            Diva

Reign S2 E16 Diary

Dear Diary,

I should have quit when I had the chance. Another party I have to prepare and this time a bunch of young girls are everywhere trying to be a mistress for Francis. Even Narcisse brought his attractive niece. What is wrong with people? And wouldn't the mistress automatically be Lola. Francis already has a child with her so wouldn't it be a given that she would be the mistress? Another thing I couldn't believe is Catherine letting Kenna plan the party. I feel Catherine may have something up her sleeve. I keep catching people having chats with each other: Conde and Mary, Conde and Antoine, Antoine and Kenna. I don't trust Antoine at all. He's always lurking around.

The party went on without a hitch, but I did see Narcisse's niece take Francis to the planning room. I don't hate him for it. Everyone here at the castle knows the deal between Francis and Mary. I'm just surprised Francis did it with that girl. I would have gone with Lola. I also saw Kenna and Bash dance. Things must be going well for them since I never see Bash attend one of these things. I wish I could say the same about me, but no I can't. I'm at every function. His wife is a slave driver. Clean this, clean that. I can't catch a break with Kenna.

I thought we were done having visitors this week, but then Antoine's wife arrived very, very pregnant. Girl couldn't even walk down the corridor without falling over. When Antoine was leaving (he will not be missed), I saw Conde give him a kiss goodbye with his fist. I don't know what Antoine said or did, but he deserved it. 

I will say this Diary, I saw Conde entering Mary's chamber last night. It could be nothing or it could be something. Not sure yet.

Luv ya,

           Diva

Previously On Thursday...

Hey People,

Reign S2 E15 Diary

S2 E14

Just when I think I'm done with this show, it just pulls me back in.

Number-of-the-week: We find ourselves dealing with people who have too much money and therefore waste it on crap and people. The King family has been rich for 200 years. Quick tidbit I did not know: by the 3rd generation 90% of the wealth is gone. You know what that means? Rich people really can become poor. Anyway, our team is sent to stop an auction of selling people and crap that the Kings hold. Money must do weird things to people because the father had his two sons dueling it out on who would be left with everything by letting them play Russian Roulette after every auction with the loser pointing a gun to their head and pulling the trigger. By the end of it, one of the sons should have died, but since the proceeding was interrupted by Red and Liz, it never happened. Instead, the father gets the bullet when Red takes the gun from the son and pulls the trigger. What are the odds that the father was going to get killed? 1/6

Red and Liz had a sweet moment. I'll sum it up for you.

Liz: When someone saves your ass, you should say thank you
Red: Thank you
Liz: You're welcome
Red: Never do it again, you dumb biddy

My version may not be sweet, but it was a nice moment because Liz admits that she cares for Red and in his own way Red admits he cares for her since he didn't want her risk her life to save his.

As for Cooper, well man isn't doing so good. He has days to live with a huge tumor in his head and I'm not really sure if he's really going to make it next season unless the treatment miraculously saves him which is possible in this show. Since Cooper's friend helped him get into the trial, the friend is now asking for favors. Shut that down Cooper! You don't owe him anything. Getting into the trial was so you could live, not so you could serve him.

In other news, Tom is back and boy do I wish he wasn't. My least favorite scene was Tom and Liz talking about going undercover and Tom telling Liz some pointers. I really don't understand how she could have had that conversation. It should have gone like this.

Liz: Hello
Tom: It's me
Liz: [click]

I hope the writers don't put them back together. I don't know how that would ever work and there's no way in hell Red would allow it, which makes me love Red even more.

Luv ya,
            Diva

Previously On Thursday...

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Not Showing This Week

S2 E13

I can't believe I didn't think of that as a reason why Liz wouldn't hand over the Fulcrum, but in my defense, I wasn't thinking she was going to hand it over in the first place. Red seems to believe the reason Liz doesn't want to give the Fulcrum to him is because if she does, Red wouldn't have any use for her anymore. He's probably right on the assumption, but I think Red loves her and would still stick around. Do I know the reason why? No, but hopefully by the end of this season we'll get some answers as to why Red is so protective of Liz.

Case-of-the-week: The Blacklist does its cases right. I'm usually intrigued by them and this one is no different. A woman takes over her late husband's work of killing people and instead focuses in on murdering men who abuse women. I'm not going to lie, I wasn't crying over the souls of these men so I was kind of on her side a bit, but she couldn't admit to herself that she had become her husband in the process which was true.

I knew right from the get go that Liz would be captured because either Liz or Ressler always gets captured. Anyway, Liz tried to strangle the copycat killer and what we got to see is Liz becoming her husband--a killer. Granted, Tom killed an innocent man and that woman was far from being innocent, but she didn't think twice of not killing her and if it weren't for Ressler barging in, she would have killed the exact same way Tom did.

Speaking of Tom, he's back tonight. Here's hoping he dies because I think his story line is played out.

Luv ya,
            Diva

Previously On Thursday...

Hey People,

S1 E13

I definitely wasn't disappointed with Cicely Tyson. She brought her A game and I knew she would. Anna Mae Annalise and why she is the way she is. Annalise didn't grow up in what you would call a happy home. Ophelia made it sound like rape was a common occurrence to the women. Annalise was raped by her uncle, who died in a fire set by Ophelia. Annalise may not think her mother should win any mother of the year awards, but one thing she can't deny is her mother protecting her at all costs. I think this shows hope to Annalise and proof that if her mother could get away with murder maybe so can she. Anytime there was a scene between Tyson and Davis, they had my undivided attention. I don't know how they commanded it, but they just did. Through their scenes together, we found out a lot about them.

This brings me to my problem for the episode. What's with all the sexism? I just kept thinking Ophelia was just stuck in her old ways and that's why she thinks men only take things and women care, nurture, and love things and given the fact of how she grew up and only strengthens her accusations, but I understand why she thinks that way even though it's not true. Not all men are takers and not all women are nurturers. Then you have the case-of-the-week which deals with a female nurse raping a male patient. I thought it was a great case when I heard it, but was disappointed when I found out it was all a set up so the hospital's lawyer and the patient, who happen to be lovers, would get a payout. This had so much potential to showcase a rape case where the male is the victim, but it just turned into another female is the victim. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad the case was dropped in the end because she was innocent, I just wish the writers went there and showed that men can be rape victims as well.

In other news: Annalise wants to be Nate's lawyer; Wes doesn't trust Rebecca because she lied about what happened to Rudy; Rebecca has a tracking device on Wes's phone (weird to the extreme!); Connor let's the group meet his boyfriend (I'm pretty sure they're going out now, especially when the bf said "I love you" to Connor); Michaela is worried about Nate because she doesn't like setting up an innocent man; Bonnie won her 1st case without Annalise and celebrated by having sex with Asher in the parking garage (WTF!); and Laurel is a great liar, who knows Wes/Rebecca situation.

Tonight's episode will be the 2 hour finale so make sure you watch because it will start an hour earlier than usual. You know this season finale will be a roller coaster. Expect a review afterwards.

Not Showing This Week

S2 E12

Why do Ressler and Keen always get caught? I'm shocked that everyone decides to keep them alive. They seriously should be dead by now. Anyway the case-of-the-week was quite interesting. A cult gets murdered in their own backyard by the boys that were excommunicated. The logic was really flawed. Small group of people, probably all related, having kids. The men would take 3 wives and it just so happens that the population was skewed male. So bye, bye went some boys, but they would eventually take revenge on what their leader did to them. Polygamy, pedophilia, and incest, I wasn't really crying a river when the leader and the adults got killed. The children did make it out alive though so there may be hope for them (with a lot of therapy).

We still don't know what Cooper has, but it's very bad, so bad, he needed to get in a trial, which a friend hooks him up with. As for the safe that Red was looking for he found it along with the help of his DMV buddy (they make a funny duo) and inside was a card. The eppy ends with Red calling the number and talking to someone.

Luv ya,
            Diva

Reign S2 E15 Diary

Dear Diary,

At least I didn't have to set up a party this time. Instead, I had to set up a funeral that I couldn't even attend. Well, it's not like I liked the guy, so whatever.

Why do I have to be the one to help out with another party? Why is there always a frickin party to prepare? Ahh! While I was setting up Antoine's room I noticed him flirting with Lady Kenna. He wants her to decorate his room. If I was given that much money, I would take it and run. Bash will not be happy about his wife spending time with that douche. Apparently Bash left the castle to find the healer in a town. He really does try to save irrelevant people, but I guess all people need to be saved.

While I was attending to the guests, I saw Lady Lola on something very heavy. I've never seen her so...free and careless. I kinda like her this way. Whatever she took, needs to be a daily occurrence. I heard she's supposed to meet the parents of her son's future wife. Good luck to her.

Previously On Thursday...

Hey People,

S2 E11

Case-of-the-week: A man who tried to save his people by taking a CIA agent as his prisoner so it would gain the attention of Americans. A leaking pipeline was making people sick, but in the end, it turns out it was the collaboration of an American pipeline and an Uzbekistani that caused this epidemic. Red had his endgame in sight the whole time. He would get rid of the American pipeline and replace it with a French one. New pipeline, sick people compensated, bad guys go away, and Red makes money for making the deal. Win, win.

Meanwhile, the guy who was killed by Tom on the boat was discovered and now Liz is in some deep shit especially since the big guy who babysat Tom is now talking.

Also, Aram couldn't help Liz with whatever she found in that stuffed animal, but he did say it was holding audio. My guess is Red is on that tape.

Did anyone else notice Ressler dropping hints of lovers' quarrel between Red and Liz? He even asked Red if he was in the doghouse. I just hope they aren't father/daughter or that would have been all kinds of weird.

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S1 E12

I swear, just looking at Connor gives me panic attacks. I'm worrier too, but I do all my worrying in thought, not spewing so loud that Annalise would hear.

Case-of-the-week: I'm actually getting sick and tired of Annalise winning all the time and the way she won this one made me roll my eyes. I couldn't figure out why the guy would talk. He had more incentive not to talk because if he didn't, he would have gotten his green card. If this man was supposed to lay low, then why is he posting on Facebook. Just made no sense, but whatever Annalise is a genius and all that and she wins cases. This show should stick to what it does best--covering up murders.

I'm hoping that we won't just see the Keating 4 + Rebecca all sitting together and worrying the whole time because that's all we've seen them do so far when they're not working a case. Well at least Wes is trying to solve the mystery of the last owner of his apartment. If they didn't have Annalise, they would have been caught by now, but I still don't get why she's protecting them. I know she said it was because of her they're in this mess, but I'm just not seeing it at least not to this extent.

Bonnie has figured out everything and one thing I'm not getting is how did she figure out the kids were the ones who murdered Sam. Everything else connects the statue, the carpet, and she may have gotten Connor because of his car being there, but how everyone else? Is it because Connor said he was with the gang and therefore they must be covering for him. I'm going to go with that because nothing else makes sense. So is Asher now the only one who isn't in on it? No one should tell that douchebag. He would just yell it to the world. We already know he can't deal with injustice as we saw from the previous episode before this (wife abuser/kidnapper/rapist).

I will say this folks, I was shocked and stunned that Annalise and Frank setup Nate. I just feel so bad for this guy. He really didn't do anything wrong and I bet this will be the case Annalise loses. I guess she will only lose when it's convenient for her.

Guess what? Mama is coming home and I can't wait to see Cicely Tyson.

Reign S2 E14 Diary

Luv ya,

           Diva

Reign S2 E14 Diary

Dear Diary,

Sledding, you would think I would be having fun, but when you have to push everyone down the hill, sledding is no longer fun. They can't even get their butts up the hill. Lazy bums the lot of them. There was almost a dispute between Antoine and Bash. It seems Kenna is once again the center of attention.

Then I had to prepare for a family dinner to which DB Sr. was invited to. There, Catherine reveals that she has been poisoned by Henry's Bible. It's most likely what made the late King go mad and power hungry for England. Bash is on the case, but Catherine won't stop until the person behind it is dead. No one hurts her family, unless it's her (the whole Claude thing).

Previously On...Thursday

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S1 E11

This is the first time where I actually was more intrigued by the case than what else was going on. At first I was on the defender's side. When she admitted to stealing a baby to protect her for harm, I was still on her side, but when the baby girl is locked up and is basically treated the same way her husband treats the other girls, she became a monster. I know she was basically groomed this way since she was 16 when she started to be abused, but no excuse. Glad Annalise dropped her.

We go to see what Team Keating did over break. I'll break it down for you. Annalise was drunk, Wes was having nightmares/opened letters not addressed to him, Conner becomes less of a slut, Michaela is now single, and Laurel was sent to her room.

Frank stole Conner's car so it could be crushed and was behind the New York decoy, which is now pointless since they found Sam's body at the dump. Sam's sister is not going anywhere anytime soon.

Reign S2 E13 Diary

S2 E10

My Theory

Before I get into the episode last week, I just wanted to say I'm glad I'm not the only one who is frustrated and also intrigued by this show. Also, when it comes to ratings The Blacklist didn't do that bad for the night. Maybe it can make it on its new night after all.

Okay so basically last week was about retrieving Liz's memories of the night of the fire. The whole episode was a waste because she doesn't remember a damn thing and since this probably wasn't her first go around at this type of therapy that deals with memories, she doesn't even know if what she saw was real or if the people were in the right roles. Like I said, a waste.

Liz always thinks she's done with Red, but she's never done with Red so who is she trying to fool. There is definitely some type of relationship Red and Liz share other than the Fulcrum because there is no way he only cares about her for that reason.

I shouldn't say it was all a waste because Liz was going through her old stuff and found her stuffed animal, opened it up and found a small box inside. Now this is most likely the Fulcrum everyone is after. Here's the thing 26 years ago, info was generally on floppy disks and there was no way the info was on something that small back then. But whatever, I'll accept it. I wonder what Liz will do with it.

In other news, Cooper was told info relating to his health that we still don't know anything about, nor care about since it's not affecting his job and Aram and Samar are cute together.

Luv ya,
            Diva

Reign S2 E13 Diary

Dear Diary,

First Bloom my ass. I don't care about a flower popping up in the snow when I'm the one that has to prepare decorations for the party. I bet they wouldn't be throwing this many parties if they had to clean up after each one. I hear Lola and Conde will attend together since Mary ordered it. They seem to be following the rules for now which is very unlike them since they don't usually follow anyone's rule. Lola does what she feels is right and Conde does what Conde wants.

Antoine has come to ask for money for the French Protestant refugees that take refuge in Navarre. Will he get his money is still up in the air.

Previously On...Thursday

Hey People,

Welcome The Blacklist to the Thursday lineup.

Reign S2 E12 Diary

S1 E10

Seeing everyone on edge actually made this a better episode than the midseason finale for me. Everyone was interviewed by the police telling their side of the story of what happened the night Mr. Keating went "missing".

Connor and Michaela were about to crack to save themselves, but when Annalise told them she was in on it, they settled down and complied to her wishes. Now everyone knows the truth, including Frank.

Rebecca along with the other guy, who was the victim's boyfriend, was cleared of all charges. Why did the prosecution office go after Rebecca and him so hard I will never know.

Now there is a new player in the game--Sam Keating's sister. It looks to me that she with be a thorn in Annalise's plan.

Did anyone else love how Annalise used their predicament as the test question? Maybe she'll get some good answers back and she can use them. If not, does that mean everyone fails?

S2 E9

So what did we learn last Sunday? Well for one thing, Cooper can't keep a secret. We don't negotiate with terrorists. What doesn't he understand? Secondly, how dumb is the government for putting the most dangerous information and the most dangerous terrorists in the same place? That's just a fail automatically.

Anyway, Red goes to a nonexistent prison to go after Luther (our number of the week). Luther is searching for the Fulcrum (Chuck anyone?), which is a blackmail list that could expose the most powerful people and he thinks the information at the site can lead him to it. This is what Red has been using as leverage against this mysterious group, but now the group is questioning if Red ever had it at all. Just in case you don't know, he doesn't have it, but he needs to get it so he can go back to being untouchable. Somehow Liz is the key to it, we just don't know why yet, but it does involve a fire which is most likely how Liz and Red have burns.

The mystery group sends a missile to take out everyone at the prison, which is pretty smart of them. Kill everyone there, then no one gets the info leading back to them. Liz gets caught and Red risks his life to save her, yet again. I swear she gets caught all the time, actually they all do. Anyway, Luther figures out who Liz is and Liz is hesitant to pull the trigger on him because she wants to know too. Then BOOM goes the dynamite.

I have to say when I watched this live, I was half asleep and thought it wasn't that great of an episode to air after the Super Bowl, but as I re-watched it, I thought it wasn't half bad. Still not as great as I would have liked it, but not as bad as I originally thought. We'll see if the Super Bowl had any effect on The Blacklist in the coming weeks.

Luv ya,
           Diva

Reign S2 E12 Diary

Dear Diary,

The queen of mistresses is back at the castle and already Diane is causing a stir with her talk. Bash has been granted some land of DB Sr. and he has given some to his mother so she could return. Bash you meant good, but you're an idiot. I overheard Claude and Bash's conversation. Claude wants Bash to get to the bottom of the death of the twins. My money is on Catherine doing it herself since she's capable of it ever since she's gone insane and I keep catching her talking to herself. I swear I thought she would quit doing that last week, but nope, girl is still at it. I'm starting to really get sick of it.

DB Sr. has really been a good boy lately ever since he was caught embezzling from the King. Now he can't hurt no one, but I can't help but wonder if he has something up his sleeves. He wouldn't just let the King take what he's worked/stole for

Previously On...Thursday

Hey People,

HTGAWM is back!

Reign S2 E11 Diary

How to Get Away with Murder Midseason Review

Luv ya,

           Diva

Reign S2 E11 Diary

Dear Diary,

It's been awhile since I've written an entry. Let's me catch you up. The Darkriders are at it again, but this time bearing their mark on the dead. Will it be a religious matter or a king matter is still in the air. Word at the castle is Louis bears the mark of one and if he does he'll be hanged. Mary left rather quickly when news got out. I wonder if she's willing to protect him.

Catherine has to be on something. I sometimes hear her talking to herself and sometimes I hear her in other ways. She's even delivering Claude her own food. I know I should be happy about this since it gives me less work, but when a royal wants to do something, like how Francis wants to be around Mary so he shows up with logs of wood, it's usually for a reason. Now Kenna is feeding and reading to Claude. I thought Kenna hated her. I don't understand the women in this castle. 

Previously On...Thursday

Hey People,

Reign S2 E10 Diary

Luv ya,

            Diva

Jane The Virgin and Reign Renewed!

Hello People,

Great News! If you were worried about Jane the Virgin or Reign not being renewed this year, quit worrying because they will live to see another season.


Jane the Virgin is the 2nd worst show (rating-wise) on CW, but since it is critically acclaimed and got 2 Golden Globe nominations for Best Actress and Best Comedy how could it not come back, the first time ever for the CW.

Reign is the worst show on CW, but it is one of the few that is owned by CBS (the C in the CW). Maybe this is why it was renewed for another year.

It doesn't matter to me, I'm just glad they are coming back.

Luv ya,
           Diva

Reign S2 E10 Diary

Dear Diary,

A bunch of men were gathered and chained for trying to flee the scene of the crime. It seemed like Queen Mary was studying them very carefully. I wonder why she was so curious. I did notice how anytime King Francis tries to touch her she pulls away. Oh great, what did he do now to dissatisfy our Queen again? I hear Francis will let the chained men stand outside in the cold all night because the dungeons are full and he doesn't care if they die because of what they did the night before. Well it serves them right if you ask me.

I had to help Mary move her things back into her old room. Damn this woman can accumulate a lot. Next time she gets in a fight with Francis, tell him to move out from the room. He'll probably just take his sword with him and that's it. 

Apparently, DB Sr. is in hiding. As long as I don't have to see his fug face anymore I'm okay with it.