I saw an ad for that on YouTube.
Really disturbed me, and I don’t generally get disturbed by TV show plots.
I dont think I’ll even preview that.
The US ratings are sinking, but it’s big in Italy
http://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/young-pope-season-one-ratings/
Jude Law as the priest / Pope and Diane Keaton as a nun? It must be intended as a comedy?
I tried watching it, and made it through about the first five minutes of the first episode and turned it off in disgust.
Who watches HBO?
All the cool people, i.e. Hollywood celebs, MSM talking heads, DC Bureaucrats, and most anybody unemployed and living in their mom’s basement.................
I think a good fictional drama about an evil or corrupt Pope could be very good if done right. It could take us into the byzantine world of the Church’s hierarchy and politics. But, of course, the liberals who put The Young Pope together didn’t do that. They played on a bunch of worn out stereotypes of Catholicism. I tried to watch the first episode but it was bizarrely bad.
“In a conversation about homosexuality a few years ago, a Catholic priest made a powerful observation. “Do you realize Heaven is full of gay saints?” he said. His point: The homosexual condition exists; the exercise is sinful. Those honoring God’s law carry an especially heavy cross through life, and for that they are rewarded with paradise.”
I watched the first episode and I agree, the show is horrible. That said, that quote is so much nonsense. No sinner has ever been “rewarded with paradise” for keeping God’s law. He misunderstands the New Testament. He needs to separate the descriptive from the prescriptive.
God’s people will, by the power of the Holy Spirit, seek to keep God’s law because they are new creatures brought from death to life in Christ. They don’t earn paradise because they keep God’s law regarding homosexuality or any other sin. Jesus, by His perfect life and atoning bloody death on the cross, earned paradise for them. Avoidng homosexuality and other sins is a description of their new lives in Christ.
God demands perfection. It’s not possible for a sinner to keep God’s law perfectly. However, Christ Jesus kept it perfectly and His perfection, His righteousness, is imputed to those who trust in Him alone. My sin was imputed to Christ and His perfection has been imputed to me. That’s the great exchange. The most lopsided unfair trade deal in history.
I thought it was going to be a modern treatment of the Medici-type popes, but it’s just a mish-mash of insulting dialogue.
I tried watching it but found it boring. Too slow for me.
HBO needs to go for something big like a Downton Abbey.
Granted, the series is absurd, the premise laughable, and the script simplistic nonsense designed to support an all too typical leftist fantasy narrative about reality.
But I take issue with Bozell on two points:
1) Atheists do not “hate Christianity.” Some may, but Bozell forgoes a qualifier, implying that all do, which is clearly fallacious. Many atheists respect ancient religious traditions, and honor their important place in the world. For them, atheism is purely a personal matter of conscience.
2) Bozell seems to believe that the the 3.5 percent number for homosexuals in the general population coincides with its incident among Roman Catholic clergy. As a cradle Catholic whose aunt was a Mother Superior in the Dominican order and who counted two male relatives (now deceased) as priests, I have good reason to believe the Lavender Mafia has the hold on the church that it does because a large number of gays and lesbians are attracted to the “celibate” life the church offers. Percentage-wise, while I hesitate to assert a hard percentage, the number of homosexual men and women among Catholic clergy is certainly many multiples higher than in the population at large.
Well... it’s not an IMAM being shown.
Ya might accidently insult Mohamed in some fashion.
HBO is at least THAT smart!
I might be alone on FR but I really like this show. The unhinged reaction of everyone in the show to the unconventional new Pope reminds me of the people freaking out about every little thing President Trump does.
And sue me but I’d replace lib Bergolio with this fictional Pope in a heartbeat.
Viewers who like nudity watch HBO.