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The Borgias is a one-hour drama series based on the infamous Italian Renaissance family The Borgias. Jeremy Irons stars as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of The Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy. The series begins as the family's patriarch Rodrigo becomes Pope, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance. And all the power and influence eventually leads to their demise.
Includes:
- Season One
The Borgias is a complex, unvarnished portrait of one of history`s most intriguing families. Oscar®-winner Jeremy Irons stars as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning, manipulative patriarch of the Borgia family who ascends to the highest circles of power within Renaissance-era Italy. The series begins as Rodrigo (Irons), becomes Pope Alexander VI, propelling him, his two Machiavellian sons Cesare and Juan, and his scandalously beautiful daughter, Lucrezia, to become the most powerful and influential family of the Italian Renaissance.
- Season Two
The Borgias return for more seduction, schemes, and outright villainy in all 10 riveting episodes from the second season. Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons is back as Rodrigo Borgia, the power-hungry patriarch of the Borgia clan, who has schemed his way to the top of Roman society as Pope Alexander VI. But with absolute power comes even more powerful enemies who will stop at nothing to see him toppled. While the Pope schemes to destroy his foes, his mistress Giulia Farnese (Lotte Verbeek) realizes her position in the bedroom is precarious at best; daughter Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger) seduces new suitors while caring for her illicit baby; and brothers Cesare (Francois Arnaud) and Juan (David Oakes) take sibling rivalry to a whole new level of deviancy. Be there for every stunning moment of the critically acclaimed crime drama with a royal pedigree.
- Final Season
Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons returns as the savvy and scheming Pope Alexander in all ten episodes from the riveting third and final season of The Borgias. Beset by enemies at every turn, Alexander responds with an iron will to purge the Vatican of those disloyal to him. But as he struggles to establish the Papacy as a hereditary monarchy across the heart of Italy, his emboldened children have their own plans for seizing power: Cesare (Francois Arnaud) is now a daring guerilla fighter, Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger) has entered the fray of Neapolitan politics, and both are burning with a desire that could consume them all. Passionate, sumptuous and undeniably addictive, it's an unmissable chapter in the sage of one of the most powerful families the world has ever known.
Jeremy Irons