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The New Pope

2019
5.0
3 reviews
MA15+
Rating
Eligible

Season 1 episodes (9)

1 Episode 1
1/16/20
Pius XIII is in a coma and Voiello manages to have a new Pope elected: Tommaso Viglietti is apparently easy to manipulate, while in actual fact he wants to donate the riches of the Vatican to the needy…
2 Episode 2
1/16/20
After Viglietti, the College of Cardinals decides on a moderate candidate. John Brannox is the ideal solution. Voiello flies to England to try to convince him, but Brannox is a difficult man, devoured by doubts and, perhaps, by secrets.
3 Episode 3
1/23/20
Voiello’s persuasiveness has worked. Sir John accepts the candidature and leaves for the Vatican. Everything seems to be going according to plan, but the Secretary of State couldn’t have predicted the moves undertaken by Cardinal Spalletta.
4 Episode 4
1/30/20
Nuns are on strike. John Paul III travels to Venice to pay a visit to Pius XIII, while the sect that idolizes Belardo grows in number. Meanwhile, tragic events in Lourdes require the presence of the new Pope.
5 Episode 5
2/6/20
Attracted by the star system, John Paul III meets actress Sharon Stone. An interview that gives the Pope new ideas. Meanwhile, the relationship between the Pontiff and Sofia is becoming deeper and deeper.
6 Episode 6
2/13/20
A radio is broadcasting the breathing of Pius XIII, now regular and only interrupted by strange sighs. Meanwhile, John Paul III is preparing for a “historic” interview.
7 Episode 7
2/6/20
Voiello has bowed out while the policies of his successor Assente undermine the credibility of the Church and the terrorist threat becomes more and more menacing.
8 Episode 8
2/6/20
Voiello discovers the secret of John Paul III. Meanwhile, Lenny Belardo has secretly returned to the Vatican and Voiello, thanks to the striking nuns, acts out his plan to regain power.
9 Episode 9
2/13/20
A group of terrorists has taken a priest and six students’ hostage in Ventotene. An event that finally leads Pius XIII and John Paul III to confronting each other.

About this show

Pius XIII (Jude Law) is in a coma. And after an unpredictable and mysterious turn of events, the Secretary of State Voiello succeeds in the enterprise of having Sir John Brannox (John Malkovich), a moderate English aristocrat, charming and sophisticated, placed on the papal throne adopting the name John Paul III. The new pope seems perfect, but he conceals secrets and a certain fragility. And he immediately understands that it will not be easy to replace the charismatic Pius XIII: hanging between life and death, Lenny Belardo has become a Saint and thousands of faithful are now idolizing him, fueling the contrast between fundamentalisms. Meanwhile, the Church is under attack from several scandals that risk devastating the hierarchies irreversibly and from external threats striking the symbols of Christianity. As always, however, in the Vatican nothing is what it seems. Good and evil proceed arm in arm towards history. And to reach the showdown we must wait for the events to take their course.The cast features two-time Academy Award® nominees Jude Law and John Malkovich. Returning cast from The Young Pope include Silvio Orlando, Javier Cámara, Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier and Maurizio Lombardi. New cast for the series are Henry Goodman, Ulrich Thomsen, Mark Ivanir, Yuliya Snigir and Massimo Ghini.

Ratings and reviews

5.0
3 reviews
Glen Campbell
January 28, 2020
This is incredible and puts the catholic church so so interesting and its very very clever. The dry humor and taking the P#ss on the cardinals and how they run the faith with lies manipulation. God i love this series. Watch S1 first.