I really thought this show could be great, but ends up being a waste of time. I was expecting House if Cards, but at the Vatican. But instead, the show ends of being a meditation on an unlikeable character. The Pope doesn't come of as lovable or an anti-hero or even Machiavellian, but rather, just... (for lack of a better term) kind of a dick. I would be fine with the show being pro-Catholic OR heretical, but it is neither. It barely scratches the surface of the intrigue and politics surrounding the Vatican, and instead is just a tepid character study. This show could have been so much more if it had just picked a side!
Review of The Young Pope
