EPISODE
SEASON
The Borgias - Season 1
The series follows the rise of the Borgia family to the pinnacle of the Roman Catholic Church and their struggles to maintain their grip on power.
28 August 1964, Surrey, England, UK
29 December 1963, Bournemouth, Dorset, England, UK
1974, Eger, Hungary
24 August 1975, Senta, Yugoslavia
30 September 1980
17 February 1969, England
15 December 1975, Budapest, Hungary
9 September 1976, Waterford, Ireland
8 February 1944, Islington, London, England, UK
31 March 1975, Dublin, Ireland
11 May 1961, Szeged, Hungary
1989, Aintree, Merseyside, England, UK
24 June 1982, Venlo, Limburg, Netherlands
April 03, 2011
It seems to not quite embrace or make clear its full narrative intent, and it gets old watching Pope Alexander and Cardinal Cesare simmer and scheme.
April 03, 2011
It moves more deliberately, sometimes a bit ploddingly.
April 03, 2011
It's another dose of middlebrow history with a soupcon of smuttiness, but the difference here is that 'The Borgias' has a much better cast than 'The Tudors' ever did.
April 03, 2011
Whether you accept The Borgias as dubious history, at least it never commits the deadliest sin of all: boredom.
April 03, 2011
Has all the surface requirements you'd expect from a prestige production. Now all it needs is a beating heart.
April 03, 2011
Unlike many historical accounts, The Borgias weaves a picture of a complex man whose skills at diplomacy and whose patronage of the arts helped shape a new emerging church and continent.
April 03, 2011
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.
April 03, 2011
An adequate soap but one that's also rife with missed opportunities.
April 03, 2011
A black comedy version of this story, about an incredibly selfish and cruel man somehow ascending to the holiest job on the planet, would be a lot of fun, but those moments are few and far between.
