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- 2016
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- ABC
- 2016
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Summary New York cardinal Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) is elected as the new pope through machinations by Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando) who thought the 47-year-old would amenable to his ideas. However, the new Pontiff who takes the name Pius XIII, prefers seeking advice from Sister Mary (Diane Keaton), who raised him at the orphanage. The 10-...
Created By: Paolo Sorrentino
- 2016
- TV-MA
- ABC
- 2016
- TV-MA
- ABC
The Young Pope
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 11, 2016
68
7.5
Summary New York cardinal Lenny Belardo (Jude Law) is elected as the new pope through machinations by Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando) who thought the 47-year-old would amenable to his ideas. However, the new Pontiff who takes the name Pius XIII, prefers seeking advice from Sister Mary (Diane Keaton), who raised him at the orphanage. The 10-...
Created By: Paolo Sorrentino
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
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55% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
45% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 38 Critic Reviews
68
55% Positive
21 Reviews
21 Reviews
45% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Lush, often surreal, filled with contradictory characters and backstabbing intrigue, The Young Pope is one of the more remarkable television shows in memory.
The Young Pope is a fascinating mess with a puckish sense of humor and an outsized goal--to know the mind of God.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 205 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
156 Ratings
156 Ratings
10% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
14% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 205 User Ratings
7.5
76% Positive
156 Ratings
156 Ratings
10% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
14% Negative
28 Ratings
28 Ratings
Странно что у столь хорошего сериала, так мало оценок и они столь низкие.
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There are lots of series and movies about popes, the Holy See and the Catholic Church. Many are good. There can be more critical and caustic or sympathetic to the Church, but they always captivate an audience attracted by the seductive theme, in which morality is associated with tradition, brightness and pomp, and the expectation of something scandalous.
This series does not deviate much from these rules and gives us a panorama difficult to imagine: after the death of a popular pope, very dear to everyone (who could well be the current pontiff), the Conclave, despite all the maneuvers of manipulation, chooses a young American cardinal, Lenny Belardo, a protégé of one of the main candidates for the papacy, Cardinal Spencer, Archbishop of New York. Indifferent to everyone's shock (especially the old American Cardinal, who hoped to be elected, and Cardinal Secretary of State Voiello, the face of a manipulative and cynical papal curia), Lenny accepts and takes the name Pius XIII, leading to an unparalleled revolution: preferring not to publicize his image and to maintain as little contact as possible with the faithful, he hides and tries to free the Church from the pressure of public opinion and easy popularity, while fighting with a disloyal curia, problems of pedophilia and **** and his own inner demons and doubts.
Paolo Sorrentino managed to give us a truly disruptive pope: the 20th century has been the time of "superstar" popes who draw crowds and travel the world in contact with the faithful, using their image to spread the faith, build bridges with other beliefs and combat hunger, insecurity and war. It has never been easier to know where the pope is and what he is doing, and we have never seen a papacy so stripped down and almost ashamed of its own wealth. Sorrentino breaks with this and gives us a Pius XIII that we can both hate and admire: he is narcissistic despite hiding himself, and he wants to have a good physical shape and a grandiose appearance, not shying away from resurrecting robes, ceremonies and imperial apparatus, as we haven't seen since John XXIII, in order to impose his authority on the Church. In this series, the (few) masses we see are in Latin, with the celebrant facing away from the assembly, and the pope never leaves Italy. There is an atmosphere of surrealism that can be seen in the way Sorrentino uses oneiric themes such as dream, illusion and hallucination. As the series evolves, however, the director tries to relieve the pressure and give a friendly and sympathetic conclusion to his story, which breaks with what was happening in the initial phase of the series, almost to the point of contradicting himself. Adding to this problem, the series lacks a good sense of time passing: we can't really tell if the story takes place over several years or several months.
The lavish cast is led brilliantly by Jude Law, who perfectly embodies his role and manages to be equally obnoxious and sympathetic. Diane Keaton also surprises and delights us as Sister Mary, a nun who raised Belardo in an orphanage and now acts as his personal secretary, and whom Sorrentino even places as a "power behind the throne" of his pope. Silvio Orlando and Javier Cámara are very good in the roles of two cardinals of great importance: the hypocritical Secretary of State Voiello and the alcoholic and kind Gutierrez, who is also the Papal Ceremoniary. Much less interesting are the appearances of actors like Scott Shepherd or Ludivine Sagnier. Both promised a lot and had good characters (a cardinal who had been in a relationship with the wife of a drug dealer and who appears to be bisexual, and the religious wife of a Swiss Guard who betrays him with a priest and is recruited to seduce the pope), but they're both dropped by somewhat abruptly and unpleasantly, aborting their respective sub-plots.
Technically, the series did wonders with its hefty 47 million euro budget: without the blessing to shoot in the Vatican, the environments were recreated in the studio and are excellent in the amount of detail and choice of props and furniture. The costumes and robes used are rich in detail and could perfectly be used by real prelates and cardinals without any problem. There are still several scenes shot in very good Italian filming locations, and the cinematography is pleasant and never feels televised or reductive. The dialogues and speeches are very well written and intriguing, and the contemporary soundtrack often adds to the surrealism of certain scenes.
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The show is too smart to be so easily dismissed, but whether its depiction of Vatican politics--and especially its title character’s abrasive personality--warrant devotion will be in the eye of the beholder. Lenny’s not a likable character, but The Young Pope offers addictive stories of unpredictable political maneuvering.
Sorrentino's taste for the grotesque at times gets out of hand, but generally serves him well in this comic approach to the hidebound traditions of the miniscule Papal state.
The Young Pope feels more like an eccentric foreign film than a TV series. Except it is a TV series--and little quirks that might seem charming in a 90-minute movie can begin to grate across several episodes.
At times, Sorrentino's approach is bracingly different. But many, many more times, The Young Pope leaves us alternating between admiring Sorrentino's craft and wondering why this is so lugubriously paced and cryptically written.
The Young Pope is TV’s equivalent of a dorm-room poster of Bob Marley blowing smoke or the Lenny Bruce mugshot: a depleted symbol of a radical reaction to society that finally most clearly represents the status quo.
The Young Pope is truly amazing HBO TV-series if you worry that you don't know much about Vatican city or Catholics then don't worry, It's open for everyone
1. Main characters are incredibly good, Jude Law and Silvio Orlando are amazing
2. Visual and atmosphere are 11/10 even though not one scene was shot in the Vatican Recommendation for all who tired of the Game of Thrones
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This movie is a strange long art piece sprinkled with bits of questioning and reasoning on a pope's ;'
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Production Company:
- Wildside
- Haut et Court
- Mediapro
- Sky Italia
- Home Box Office (HBO)
- Canal+
- European Regional Development Fund
- Fremantle
Initial Release Date: Oct 11, 2016
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-MA
Genres:
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 13 Nominations
L'Association des Critiques de Séries
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
