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Medici
Why this pick
Renaissance Italy again supplies sumptuous courts, family ambition, shifting alliances and dangerous intimacy, with a similarly polished historical-soap scale.
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SERIES2011 0h 50m / episode USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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A lavishly designed palace drama where sexuality, religion and personal loyalty become instruments of state power, sustaining The Borgias’ opulent, conspiratorial mood.
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Why this pick
A darker, more politically granular rendering of the same Renaissance dynasty, emphasizing the family’s internal fractures and the brutal mechanics of papal power.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Jeremy Irons
Rodrigo Borgia
François Arnaud
Cesare Borgia
Holliday Grainger
Lucrezia Borgia
Derek Jacobi
Cardinal Orsini
Joanne Whalley
Vanossa
Ruta Gedmintas
Ursula Bonadeo
David Oakes
Juan Borgia
Lotte Verbeek
Giulia Farnese