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The Borgias
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 3, 2011
69
7.5
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
69
71% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
26% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 35 Critic Reviews
69
71% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
26% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
3% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
By episode three, things are roiling up and rolling around.
The intrigue continues and The Borgias remains one of TV's more reliable potboilers.
Writer-director Neil Jordan's first foray into series TV is everything you'd want in a premium-cable costume drama: lush, romantic, violent, tragic, funny--and far enough in the past that few of us are likely to argue.
The storytelling can feel sluggish at times, but as the ruthless, morally bankrupt pope (dude has two mistresses and four kids!), Irons is at his creepy, dead-eyed-stare best.
The fact is, these kinds of grand historical reimaginings can be a scrumptious combination of costume drama acting, soap opera theatrics and pay cable promiscuousness. That'll make the hours fly by. And it doesn't mean your pleasure needs to be all that guilty.
That restraint, if that's the right word for it, leaves the program feeling muddled, spending too much time with the younger Borgias--who only live up to the "bore" part--and the labyrinthine workings of Vatican politics.
Some shading aside, some occasional twinges of remorse, nothing can hide the fact that these people have no souls to lose, no character to develop. Apart from looking for "Godfather" homage moments, there isn't more to root for here than there is at a cage fight.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 281 User Ratings
7.5
82% Positive
231 Ratings
231 Ratings
5% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
12% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 281 User Ratings
7.5
82% Positive
231 Ratings
231 Ratings
5% Mixed
15 Ratings
15 Ratings
12% Negative
35 Ratings
35 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Showtime Networks
- Take 5 Productions
- Octagon Films
- Mid Atlantic Films
- Bell Media
- Canada Media Fund (CMF)
- Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit (CPTC)
- Myriad Pictures
- Amblin Television
- ImageMovers
- Borgias II Productions
- Borgias Productions
Initial Release Date: Apr 3, 2011
Number of seasons: 3 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 1 Nomination
Primetime Emmy Awards
• 3 Wins & 16 Nominations
Canadian Screen Awards, CA
• 5 Wins & 11 Nominations
