Paolo Sorrentino's The New Pope is a classic, a novel miniseries, standing toe to toe with the high bar set by his predecessor The Young Pope. The storylines, the suspense, and the characters were wonderful. It was also a great series with a greater finale.
However, the series greatly follows in Hollywood's footsteps of making mockery of the Catholic Church by depicting The Vatican as a place of hypocrisy, weakness, deprivation, and chiefly political intrigue - devoid of all spiritual and moral sanctity. This normalization of ridicule of The Church, even depicting cloistered nuns exhibiting lewd acts before a cross in its opening theme is unrealistic, unartistic, and offensive which is something a great director like Sorrentino cannot excuse as 'fiction'.
However, the series greatly follows in Hollywood's footsteps of making mockery of the Catholic Church by depicting The Vatican as a place of hypocrisy, weakness, deprivation, and chiefly political intrigue - devoid of all spiritual and moral sanctity. This normalization of ridicule of The Church, even depicting cloistered nuns exhibiting lewd acts before a cross in its opening theme is unrealistic, unartistic, and offensive which is something a great director like Sorrentino cannot excuse as 'fiction'.