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- ABC
- Oct 11, 2016
- ABC
- Oct 11, 2016
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
- ABC
- Oct 11, 2016
- ABC
- Oct 11, 2016
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
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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
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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 166 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
124 Ratings
124 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
16% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 166 User Ratings
7.4
75% Positive
124 Ratings
124 Ratings
10% Mixed
16 Ratings
16 Ratings
16% Negative
26 Ratings
26 Ratings
The Young Pope is a riveting series, and I'm hoping for a sequel. The show takes an open mind. Some might suggest the show reveals hypocrisy, but that sort of interpretation is too naive. The common foiling of characters who symbolize human passion and spiritual devotion drive the tension that makes the series so good. The show follows the life of a Pope who believes the church must be more loving and actually encourage boundaries in a world that is fearful of boundaries and sees boundaries as a limiting of self-expression and freedom. By the end of the series, it's easy to like the main character (Lenny, the Young Pope). One of my favorite elements of Lenny's character is his smoking. Yes, the Pope smokes. This simple elements makes him flawed just enough but not enough to realize he is a saint. There is little doubt this character loves the innocent, wants to protect the less fortunate and abandoned, and encourage sinners to change; even those within his religious circle. One thing is clear: the world has sin and the world has love and hope. The Pope (Jude Law) symbolizes that hope for the world.
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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.
Good job making this minisseries. I gotta say, it bleeds creativity, because NO ONE NEVER MADE SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE EVER, showing the Catholic Church as a distorted organization filled with flawed people? Woooow! So original! Thanks, HBO and Paolo-something, for making this so awesome and controversial series that everyone will love. The priests from the Catholic Church might not love it so much as everyone will, but hey, what can they do? Cry and complain? They can't fight back, right? It's art and you can't argue against art!!!
Actually, i have an awesome idea for your next project that surely can be as good as this one here. How about make a minisseries about ISIS and put a **** Islamist character there that wants to change their whole organization from the inside colliding with the archaic visions of their ISIS members? Put some humor in it and put some surreal stuff in there and boooooooom! It will be the bomb! I assure you! I mean, you did this with the catholics, but this is something that anyone can do, right? But if you do a series about the ISIS with your "unending" creativity, i'm sure that they will love you more than the catholics do! Fear can't be bigger than creativity right? You will make everyone happy, the christians, the islamists, the jews, the girl who dated the priest and posted a review here...Your career will skyrocket and HBO will glady support this idea as well because i'm sure that they're eager to do something original and daring as much as you do. Please, do this and i'll be your biggest fan and so the ISIS members!!!
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I am a Catholic. Jude Law as the rest of the cast gave an incredible performance. You must watch all the episodes. The last three are the turning point. It all makes sense towards the end and reveals that he always believed in God, but that God was more powerful and the attention was not ever supposed to be about the Pope but about God and what God wants from all of us,,,peace, love, happiness.
Yes it does expose the corruptness of the church but that there was a pope as this to also bring down the evils that exist in her,,,I wish there was a pope such as this to do what we all pray for. He was a saint in this series as evident in his miracles. I give this five stars,,wonderful!!!
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