A wide range of dramatic events in this exciting series. The series begins with Lenni Bellardo Papuarte, who began with Pius XIII and begins to identify the Pope. On the other hand, Sister Marie is beginning to move into the spotlight. Still, Voilo insists on discovering the weaknesses of the pope through a planned secret campaign. The pope takes an unannounced journey away from the Vatican. Voilo has a crisis of conscience; Give them their audience with the pope.
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]
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.
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).
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."
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.
