01-20-2020, 09:17 AM
The New Pope on HBO
This is the second season of the show and I never watched the first. I tried this show because it has John Malkovich who I'm really liking in his later career choices.
I assume in the first season Jude Law becomes the new young sexy pope. But by th need of the series, he has a heart attack and goes into a coma.
When the second season picks up they need a new pope to take over while the pope is in the coma.
But this show is weird. It starts showing a bunch of novices heading to bed, all chaste and pristine in their white outfits, but once the midge mother superior locks the door the cigarettes and make up comes out. It ends with a music video of the young women all in a crush at the base of huge illuminated cross.
The first episode revolves around the Vatican secretary of state Volpino manipulating his way into being selected to be the new New Pope. But he is thwarted by his doppelgänger The votes in a stale mate. They come up with a third option etc etc. It's all very weird and I can't believe the Catholic Church has any love for the show. There's lots of talk of pedophile priests.
The big shocker in the first episode though, is no John Malkovich except one backlit shadow in the final shot.
We'll see. It's a weird show. Very talky. Lots of weird languid dolly shots just for the sake of long languid dolly shots. But it caught my attention so I think I will watch some more episode.
This is the second season of the show and I never watched the first. I tried this show because it has John Malkovich who I'm really liking in his later career choices.
I assume in the first season Jude Law becomes the new young sexy pope. But by th need of the series, he has a heart attack and goes into a coma.
When the second season picks up they need a new pope to take over while the pope is in the coma.
But this show is weird. It starts showing a bunch of novices heading to bed, all chaste and pristine in their white outfits, but once the midge mother superior locks the door the cigarettes and make up comes out. It ends with a music video of the young women all in a crush at the base of huge illuminated cross.
The first episode revolves around the Vatican secretary of state Volpino manipulating his way into being selected to be the new New Pope. But he is thwarted by his doppelgänger The votes in a stale mate. They come up with a third option etc etc. It's all very weird and I can't believe the Catholic Church has any love for the show. There's lots of talk of pedophile priests.
The big shocker in the first episode though, is no John Malkovich except one backlit shadow in the final shot.
We'll see. It's a weird show. Very talky. Lots of weird languid dolly shots just for the sake of long languid dolly shots. But it caught my attention so I think I will watch some more episode.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm