The 2017 HBO drama The Young Pope (renamed The New Pope in its second season) portrayed worship as an absurd, often surreal exercise, while the 2019 film The Two Popes turned the transfer of papal ...
an HBO series following Jude Law as the fictional Pius XIII, the first American pope who disrupts the Vatican with his controversial views. The series was later followed by The New Pope in 2020 ...
"The Young Pope" has finally arrived on HBO, and while it's got plenty of bizarre moments in the plot to buzz about, the basic premise and title of the show alone have caused quite a stir on Twitter.
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