The Young Pope

I just finished watching this last night. Marathoned the whole thing. Is he a narcissist?

>>7932662
i think he is a narcissist, but he's also legitimately a saint. he's a real human bean who happens to have the genuine bona fide grace of god
it's what makes the show so good

>>79326622
probably

>>79326510
Africa episode was pretty kino

>>79327022
Which episode wasnt?

>>79326622
>narcissist
In the beginning yeah. At the end nah.

>>79326510
>start watching this thinking it would be some reddit tier brand of meme show because of random out of context screencaps
>be hit with this level of kino
It's been a while since I've been surprised this pleasantly.

finish watching The Young Pope, don't know what to watch now. There isn't another serie with this level of kino

>>79327662
Mad Men

Reminder that if you ain't a Catholic, you're a loser.

Deus Vult amicum

So is this show about a reddit pope who blesses gay marriage and women being priests in the catholic church or about the "deus vult" type of pope?

>>79327941
no, the pope is basically trump.

>>79327961
This opinion is inexcusable unless you're just watching the first episode now

>>79327941
Much closer to "deus vult."

>>79327941
He's actually a pretty conservative pope who doesn't quite believe in God but aside from that he's free of sin (a saint) and can also perform miracles by "speaking" to God and channeling His grace.

>>79328017
i watched the whole series. loved it. he's basically trump in a sense that his this new rebellious figure on the scene that everyone hates and wants to impeach.
also he wants to get rid of gay priests.

>>79327941
he's literally /pol/ in that he's a """cultural Christian""" who believes in traditional European Christian doctrine but can't really convince himself to believe in God

>>79328042
I don't understand how he doesn't believe when he's able to do crazy things through prayer

>>79327941

I only watched episode one and hes dreaming of telling people to fuck each other and use condoms, that gay people are okay and that they should get abortions, hes having dreams about saying it in public and everybody is mortified

Coupled with him actually being an atheist I think hes exactly the kind of reddit pope you're thinking of beats me why idiots think hes "trump pope"

in fact the show was so reddit I quit after the first episode

>tfw watched The Borgias then went straight to The Young Pope

any more Papal kino? or should I just go to church tomorrow and see what this shit is all about?

>>79327941
It's the "stop trying so hard, you edgy basement dweller" type

>>79328145
I actually feel bad about giving this shitpost a (You)

but there may be people reading who see this and quit the first episode after that dream where the audience is tricked into thinking he's some Pope Francis-tier cuckold

>>79326510
The soundtrack to the series is beautiful. There's a spotify playlist.

I am partial to this remix of Halo myself
https://youtu.be/81qR1mPvW8Q

>>79328148
Sorrentino's film from about a decade ago, Il Divo, a true story

>>79326510
Even though it's completely different, this show kind of reminds me of "Twin Peaks" - there's a sort of tongue-in-cheek sense of humor to the whole thing, it's sometimes tough to tell which scenes are meant as satire, and which are meant to be taken seriously. But then it's the strangest, most out-of-left-field moments that feel the most sincere and powerful.

The scenes where Lenny uses the "power of prayer" to help Esther conceive, and then to punish the corrupt nun in Africa, are ridiculous on paper, but somehow the show makes it work. The way prayer just "works" for Lenny is pretty much the way I always wished it'd work when I was a kid - he just concentrates really, really hard on something he wants, and it just happens.

I'm rambling now but it's a great show, best I've seen in a long time.

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>>79326510
>tfw we will never have a pope this based in real life ever again

Francis has ruined the church

>>79328145
it was a nightmare

>>79328259
): true

>>79326510
Lenny is ALWAYS right.

The Catholic Church must be feared again.

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>YFW SMITING CORRUPT DYKE NUNS

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>>79328259

http://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/01/03/next-pope-says-trump-could-be-like-best-president-reagan/

>>79328880
I keep seeing this posted but I don't see why anyone would assume he'd be the next pope. I don't recall anyone saying Francis was "tipped to be the next pope", do you? I don't think that's how it works unfortunately.

>>79328880
current pope seems pretty healthy though, 'next pope' might even die sooner

>>79328145
How is it possible for someone to be this retarded?

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*walks towards you*

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>>79328974
LENNY! THE CARDINALS, HAND THEM OVER!

>>79328145
You would have fooled more people that haven't seen the show if you hadn't had that last line in there. Made it too obvious.

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>>79328259
>Mike "Turning fruits into vegetables" Pence

>>79328185
he made it sound like that it was a good dream, as if it's his dream to speak his true feelings like that. is that how it is? gay if so

>>79327941
Go back to /r/ the Donald you fat fuck

>>79328974
best character

>>79326510
You have to go back

>>79329282
no, it's a nightmare

>>79329079
Face it. Your show got BTFO.

>>79329454
/facepalm

>>79326510
what's some essential /Catholicore/ after watching this?

He doubts God but is able to perform miracles and is trying to come to terms with it as a narcissistic idealist.

>>79326510

sorrentino should just direct music videos
pure kino

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFMDVH4lqSU

>>79328042
what has he done through prayer, I admit I haven't been paying a lot of attention, t. A.D.D. an cellphone

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>>79331995
SHOOK THE PLANE WHEN THAT REPORTER WAS GETTING UPPITY

NEXT IN LINE FOR POPE IS A TRUMP SUPPORTER

RMYT

>>79331995
>got elected pope
>made the kangaroo jump
>got ester pregnant
>shook the plane
>killed sister antonia

>>79328974
FULL
KIT
WANKER

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JyTFyqPfhsQ

>>79332361
>God killed someone because the Pope prayed for it.

What the fuck?

And I saw Ester had a kid, who's the father? Does anyone know?

>>79326510
I cried desu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbb-mita0Hs

>>79332199
>next Pope

Pure clickbait.

But I would love Deus Vult Pope

>>79332477
either peter or god

>>79332552
Wasn't she married or something?

>>79332616
she was married to peter, they were both sterile, they fucked, pope outside the window prayed she would get pregnant, she got pregnant

Seeing as he clearly prays for intercession at various points and then his wish "coincidentally" gets fulfilled (killing the african nun, getting that girl pregnant), does that mean the holy spirit actually exists in the young pope universe

>>79326510
madilyn bailey's cover is more pleasant to the ear
but nonetheless this was pure kino

>>79328138
I think people are misunderstanding his loss of faith. When he says he doesn't believe in God, he's not saying it in the sense that God physically exists.

In the dream speech in the first episode and the Africa speech, he says that he tells children that God is in the things they like. In the Africa speech, he also says God is peace, and for him peace was his parents. Because he was never able to get over his abandonment by his parents, he doesn't feel God's love or his presence in his life because He's more than just some nebulous being in Heaven, He's in all the things that give people passion.

>>79332965
Good post m8

TO NOT FORGET

>http://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/01/the-young-pope-hbo-review

HBO’s Vatican drama is darker and harsher than the memes would have you believe.

But . . . I don’t know. I’m having trouble reveling in it right now. The show’s accidental similarities to real-life events—Lenny was elected Pope in a stunning upset that confounded the Vatican establishment’s assumption that a more familiar veteran would win—are so keenly felt in the first half of the season that it makes for difficult viewing. I don’t really want to watch this amoral, perhaps insane autocrat exert his ordained might, upending an age-old institution while others fearfully scramble—disbelieving and caught entirely off guard—to save what they can. Sorry, that’s just not the kind of Sunday night I want to have right now. I’m sure those with stronger stomachs—or, indeed, different political sensibilities—will find something exciting or trenchant in The Young Pope’s political annihilation. But, for me, it’s no fun.
[...]
The main Italian in the cast is Silvio Orlando as a beleaguered, mole-flecked cardinal tasked with advising this cocky young Pope, and thwarted at nearly every turn. Cardinal Voiello is horrified by the new Pope’s flouting of tradition, his refusal to submit himself to observance of common courtesies and ethics. (Ugh.) Voiello plays the role of dutiful vizier when in the presence Pope Pius, though we know—and Lenny knows—that he’s much craftier and more resourceful than he lets on. A potentially satisfying bit of intrigue is developing there, but for my sanity’s sake, Voiello better be able to topple this frightening, power-mad narcissist.If not, all of Sorrentino’s style and quirky Euro humor will have been in the service of something rather cruel and redundant. We’ve already got a real authoritarian fox (Trump) in the henhouse to worry about. Lord help us, we don’t need another one on TV—blessed though he may be.

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>>79333466

>>79333466
>the show’s accidental similarities to real-life events—Lenny was elected Pope in a stunning upset that confounded the Vatican establishment’s assumption that a more familiar veteran would win—are so keenly felt in the first half of the season that it makes for difficult viewing.

Why are journalists and commentators quite so fucking shit now

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>>79333466
>ugh

>>79326510
euphoric from a speech?

sounds pseud as fuck

When God smacks you with kino you turn the other cheek.

>>79333466

You can say the EXACT same shit as Obama.

>young
>handsome
>charismatic
>idealistic

Fuck.

>>79328974
>he'll get over Maradona in s2 and instead cream himself over Zielinski

>>79326510
I still don't understand how Sorrentino managed to make these kind of scenes beautiful and not cheesy or ridiculous at all.

>>79336740
he's italian

>>79327368
The show tries to trick you into thinking he's a narcissist early in the show, by the end you realize he only appeared that way because he was working for god

The few days I spent watching this show my depression was gone.

Back to suffering I guess.

>>79327941
Yes, This is what its about, which is why you shouldn't watch it. I'd recommend walking dead friendo

>>79336928
Back to Jesus.

>>79337016
I'm not ready.

>>79333466
>(((vanityfair)))

arent these the fucking RETARDS who were too scared to watch this because it reminde them of trump?

Can we genocide america yet?

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this is quickly becoming one of my favorite HBO shows ever. certainly makes westworld and game of thrones look like plebshit anyway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isgydm69YLE

The Young Kino.

>>79326510
The music in this show is top notch

>>79331872
at first i was mad but they pay off was orgasmic

>>79336740
it's the buildup and context to these points in the story. if the show started with Lenny doing these things, or if you isolate them out of context, it would be cheesy, but when taken into context with the rest of the story it's a masterpiece

>>79338517
no, they really were very cheesy

I was disappointed in this show, I thought it would explore faith and moral authority in the age after the death of God, but it turned into sentimentalist tripe halfway through

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oecHq2neweA

kino

This was pure kino (although Diane Keaton's acting was really bad the first few episodes), looking forward to the second season which is currently in production!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z498JqZD_k

>>79338824
>god is dead

there it is again.

>>79339683
The "death of God" refers to mass irreligiosity and loss of faith, it's not a literal expression.

>>79339874
it refers to the birth of modernity and inevitably post modernity. The death of anything previously held to be sacrosanct or an immutable truth. God was just the ideal expression for what was being killed

>>79339911
>The death of anything previously held to be sacrosanct or an immutable truth
it refers to loss of religiosity and faith in higher values explicitly, which is a consequence of modernity, not the same thing. save your lectures for people who want them