The Borgias

TV Series

2011 min TMDB 7.6

EN 4 Seasons

Drama Crime

Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth...

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TV Series

The Borgias

2011 min TMDB 7.6

EN 4 Seasons

Drama Crime

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2011-04-03

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Episode 1: The Borgias: The Original Crime Family

2011-03-31 50min 5.0

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.

Episode 1: The Poisoned Chalice

Rodrigo successfully bribes and intimidates his way into an election as Pope Alexander VI, making hi...

2011-04-03 50min 7.0

Episode 2: The Assassin

The new Pope wastes no time consolidating power and balancing opposition to him in the College of Ca...

2011-04-03 52min 7.1

Episode 3: The Moor

His coffers depleted by his expensive rise to power, Rodrigo seeks funds through a profitable marria...

2011-04-10 53min 7.1

Episode 4: Lucrezia's Wedding

Lucrezia's financially and politically motivated wedding to Milanese nobleman Giovanni Sforza is a d...

2011-04-17 58min 7.2

Episode 5: The Borgias in Love

Alternately neglected and abused by her cruel husband, Lucrezia has an affair with Paolo, a handsome...

2011-04-24 53min 7.2

Episode 6: The French King

Della Rovere reaches France and strikes a bargain with its ruler to invade Italy and install him on...

2011-05-01 53min 7.0

Episode 7: Death, on a Pale Horse

The invasion by King Charles of France and Della Rovere proceeds with victory seemingly inevitable a...

2011-05-08 52min 7.2

Episode 8: The Art of War

The invaders capture a fleeing and pregnant Lucrezia as they march on Rome, but she charms King Char...

2011-05-15 51min 7.1

Episode 9: Nessuno (Nobody)

Abandoned by even his cardinals, Alexander meets King Charles with humility and saves his throne, ev...

2011-05-22 48min 8.0

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.

Episode 1: The Borgia Bull

Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a c...

2012-04-08 54min 7.1

Episode 2: Paolo

The stable boy who fathered Lucrezia's child travels to Rome to rendezvous with her but suffers an u...

2012-04-15 48min 7.2

Episode 3: The Beautiful Deception

Alexander VI refuses to allow a Catholic burial for Paolo, despite his doubts about the stable boy’s...

2012-04-22 56min 7.6

Episode 4: Stray Dogs

Cesare recruits a band of mercenaries with the help of Micheletto to seek revenge on the retreating...

2012-04-29 53min 7.3

Episode 5: The Choice

Cesare deals with the cunning Sforzas decisively; Alexander disguises himself and travels to Florenc...

2012-05-06 53min 7.3

Episode 6: Day of Ashes

Alexander is convinced that a lightning strike on St. Peter's Basilica during mass was a sign of God...

2012-05-13 50min 7.9

Episode 7: The Siege at Forli

Juan's triumphant return from Spain is marred by his unsuccessful siege of the Sforza castle; Lucrez...

2012-05-20 52min 8.1

Episode 8: Truth and Lies

Juan returns to Rome trying to spin his combat injury as proof of his valor, but Cesare exposes his...

2012-06-03 50min 7.2

Episode 9: World of Wonders

It's Easter and Alexander makes plans for a celebration to end his pious fast even as Della Rovere's...

2012-06-10 49min 8.4

Episode 10: The Confession

Tragic news for the Borgia family is followed by a shocking revelation from Cesare; Lucrezia surpris...

2012-06-17 58min 8.4

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.