The Borgias

The Borgias is a 2011 historical fiction cinematic television series created by Neil Jordan.

The Borgias shows the corridors of power in the Vatican, following the quest for power of Rodrigo Borgia, chosen to be the new pope under the name of Alexander VI in 1492. With this, the Borgia family becomes the most influential and dangerous of Renaissance Italy, unaware that all this power will eventually lead them to ruin.

The series features Jeremy Irons as Rodrigo Borgia, the cunning manipulative patriarch of the Borgia family who builds an empire through the corruption of the Catholic Church and orchestrates a reign of ruthless power and flamboyant cruelty. This one on his way up to Pope through bribery and simony, creates enemies who will try anything to harm him. In his macabre plans, enlisted the help of Cesare (François Arnaud), Juan (David Oakes) and Lucrezia (Holliday Grainger), their children. A story worth remembering, where the thirst for power and influence blood flow.

The Borgias were controversial and heretical, not only for practical unprecedented in his time, but because they are better than their enemies. Along the way, the family commits virtually every sin in biblical and even invents a few more themselves.