The New Pope

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Season 1
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 27, 2019
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 25 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 20 out of 25
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 25
  3. Negative: 3 out of 25
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  1. Pshek
    Feb 9, 2020
    3
    Loved The Young Pope and I really regret watching this one... You wouldn't see any conflict of Popes(you will have a looong wait until Lenny arrives), just kaleidoscope of perversions and useless story lines which would come and pass without meet their ends. The series looks aimless as whole and in parts.

    Still, old characters give it some relief, especially Voiello.

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Metascore
63

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 12
  3. Negative: 0 out of 12
  1. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Jan 13, 2020
    50
    The New Pope retains the formalist beauty and sumptuousness of its predecessor while failing to measure up storytelling-wise.
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  2. The Telegraph
    Reviewed by: Anita Singh
    Jan 13, 2020
    60
    It is all deeply weird. But maybe life inside the Vatican is just that?
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  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    Jan 13, 2020
    40
    Striking but completely unnecessary addendum to his wildly imaginative, provocative (and frankly much better) 2017 series, “The Young Pope.”
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