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.
I forced myself to give the first episode a fair shot and kept up a forlorn hope that it might get better. It doesn’t. It’s little more than a depraved attack on the Catholic church in very thin disguise and done with extremely poor taste. I’ll pass on the rest of the episodes.