There are more powerful events in the third season, where Lucretia and Michelito are about the death of King Ferdinand II when her child refuses, and Cesare has promised to cancel Louis XII's wife and army. On the other hand, Caesar unites the five Romana families with his own army against Forli, and the Pope negotiates with the Jews of Constantinople for holy remains.
For those of you who were hungry for a more dramatic power struggle for control of one the world's oldest religious orders, Showtime's The Borgias returns to fill that niche expertly.
Indeed, the show's frothy mixture of costume drama and soap opera, taken to hedonistic extremes, allows for unapologetically rich and sublimely perverse moments.
