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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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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