The Young Pope - Season 1 Episode 1
"It's death to settle for things in life" - Pope Pius XIII A baby crawling on a pile of babies. Jude Law emerging from under this pile of babies. So begins the young pope. And just like that, you know this show will be provocative. We find out the young pope got elected through the machinations of the Cardinal Secretary of State, a politician among priests. The hope was that, being young & inexperienced, he would be malleable and easily influenced. Unfortunately for the Secretary of State, the Pope is turning out to be anything but malleable. The Pope! You imagine a pope to be noble, gentlemanly, a model human being. But not this one. He smokes, has blasphemous dreams, is short-tempered, disrespectful and vindictive. He was abandoned by his parents and raised by nuns, with sorrow, suffering and bad memories in his past. A person who claims he has no sins to confess. He confesses, even, to not believing in God. He forces the Vatican's confessor to reveal secr...