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The Young Pope - Season 1
The series features chain-smoking, irrational Lenny Belardo, aka Pius XIII, the fictional first American pope in history and at 47, the youngest on record since maybe the 11th century, with an unconventional approach to religion.
26 June 1983, Rome, Lazio, Italy
13 January 1980, San Diego, California, USA
4 August 1964, Paris, France
29 March 1976, Massachusetts, USA
3 December 1933, Hampstead, London, England, UK
11 May 1934, Paris, France
January 17, 2017
I did NOT expect this to be the kind of show I enjoyed. Especially because it seemed too close to home.
April 21, 2017
It's slow and languid and there is great beauty in its sometimes slow-motion camerawork which seems to glide through this unknown world, one where a one-handed nun can be victorious in an early-morning game of football among the dewy grass.
February 24, 2017
HBO's The Young Pope - inscrutable, satirical, consistently surprising - calls to mind the pious wisdom of Saint Teresa of Avila: "More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered prayers."
February 01, 2017
It's gorgeous, disturbing, weird, slow to reveal information and short on explanations. But talk about one heck of a Vatican-inspired fashion show.
February 01, 2017
'The Young Pope' is certainly not afraid to be provocative, but that might be all it is.
January 17, 2017
The Young Pope is Italian director Paolo Sorrentino's visually stunning but simply preposterous and only semi-interesting drama about the first American pope (Jude Law).
January 18, 2017
Shot in Italy, The Young Pope is always beautiful and often fascinating. It offends as often as it intrigues, and then it turns poignant.
May 04, 2017
It could've chosen to see its characters and its world in an ironic and detached manner, but Sorrentino decided to develop them with complexity and ambition. [Full review in Portuguese]
February 22, 2017
The series' appeal has everything to do with watching this outsider come crashing through an ossified system like a wrecking ball, refusing to follow the rules or set aside any personal pettiness, declaring war on anyone who defies him.

