The Young Pope Season 1 -

Then watch it again to catch the prayers hidden in the silence.

The season’s narrative engine is simple: Lenny did not want to be Pope; he was a compromise candidate engineered by the calculating Secretary of State, Cardinal Voiello (Silvio Orlando). Once elected, however, Lenny doesn’t play the puppet. He plays the tyrant. The first season follows his war against the various factions of the Curia, his manipulation of world politics, and his slow, painful unraveling of his own childhood abandonment. It is impossible to discuss The Young Pope Season 1 without acknowledging Jude Law’s tour de force. Law disappears into Lenny Belardo. He is icy, cruel, and mesmerizing. One moment he is delivering a homily so beautiful it brings nuns to tears; the next, he is humiliating a cardinal for suggesting a new marketing campaign for the Church. The Young Pope Season 1

Created by Paolo Sorrentino (the Oscar-winning director of The Great Beauty ), the first season is a self-contained masterpiece of 10 episodes that asks a singular, terrifying question: What if the most radical, intelligent, and ruthless mind in the world sat on the throne of St. Peter? The Young Pope Season 1 opens with the election of Lenny Belardo (Jude Law), an American cardinal who is taken from obscurity to become the first American Pope in history, taking the name Pius XIII. He is 47 years old—young by Vatican standards, devastatingly handsome, and utterly unpredictable. Then watch it again to catch the prayers