Jeremy Irons spelar tidernas mest beryktade påve, den samvetslöse Alexander VI, i denna påkostade dramaserie av Neil "Crying Game" Jordan. Han använder sina fyra barn som schackpjäser i ett hänsynslöst maktspel och skyr varken utpressning, mutor, tortyr eller mord.
Serien hade premiär 2011 och varje avsnitt är ungefär 50 minuter. Totalt har 29 avsnitt sänts uppdelat på 3 säsonger och serien är skapad av Neil Jordan. Tyvärr har serien lagts ner och det kommer inga nya avsnitt
Jeremy Irons
Rodrigo Borgia
François Arnaud
Cesare Borgia
Holliday Grainger
Lucrezia Borgia
Joanne Whalley
Vanozza Cattaneo
Colm Feore
Giuliano Della Rovere
Micheletto returns to Cesare briefly to help him destroy the walls of Forli and capture Caterina Sforza and later recruit her assassin Rufio.
Alexander VI survives Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere's assassination attempt, because his daughter Lucrezia knows how to treat catarella poisoning. Alexander's war with the Sforza family continues and escalates. Alexander now plots to turn the Papacy into an explicitly hereditary office.
Having survived the French invasion with his Papacy intact (just barely), Alexander VI containues to advance his agenda. But the Sforza family continues to thwart him, leading him to make physical war upon them. Nor has Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere given up trying to rid the Vatican of Alexander. Having failed to depose the Pope legally, Cardinal della Rovere plots to assassinate him.
Pope Innocent VIII dies. Rodrigo Borgia wins election as Pope Alexander VI by bribing enough of the cardinals to vote for him in conclave. Alexander "packs" the College of Cardinals with 13 new members, including his son Cesare. He then tries to contract an alliance with the powerful family of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, one of his two original rivals for the Papacy. That alliance, ever fragile, breaks after Alexander's other rival, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), contracts his own alliance with the King of France for an invasion of Italy.
Neil Jordan
