The New Pope (TV Mini Series) Episode #1.5 (2020) User Reviews

So deliciously weird

[Piedradura · 9/10 · 11 February 2020]

This show is brilliant. Entertaining and provocative. Haters gonna hate. I love this series! Malkovich is a treasure. Sharon's still got it!

Basic Instincts meet morals

[daseandw · 8/10 · 2 February 2020]

Another incredible episode. That's all I have to say 👍🏽

expecting Lenny

[Kirpianuscus · 17 March 2020]

The Young Pope was provocative and real well crafted. The New Pope is only...something. The result - this episode is reduced at Sharone Stone presence and the respiration of Pius XIII. And nothing more , because it is obvious, John Malkovich remains too far by his character.

Enough for me....

[ttimgents · 6/10 · 17 December 2020]

That's enough for me. No interesting dialogue... Pseudo-intellectual, pseudo-theological, pseudo-philosophical, pseudo political. Would it be any more interesting if it were told in five or six episodes rather than 9 or 10 episodes? And what the hell kind of accent is John Malkovich's character supposed to have?

Sharon Stone bit was mark for the series.

[heyroj · 2/10 · 11 February 2020]

The mock talk show bit with Sharon Stone was lame and below the stature of this series. It felt like a low point in an Austin Powers movie.

My guess, this was fulfilling some sort of 'artistic expression' insisted upon by John Malkovich as part of his agreement to accept the role. A role which teetered on overkill from the start. A role which I cannot take seriously as we progress in the story. What a shame.

Garbage

[ReviewingFilms · 1/10 · 14 February 2020]

As someone who gives The Young Pope 10/10 stars, it is sad that the New Pope is so vastly inferior to the point of being insulting to the viewer. The first episode of the New Pope was very good and in the spirit of the original series. The second and third episodes were dire. The fourth episode showed hopeful signs of recovery, but now with this fifth episode, it is doubtful that this series as a whole can be rated higher than two or three stars. John Malkovich was horribly miscast as an English gentleman. His accent is grating, delivery terrible, and he's just a boring and long-winded character I have come to dread when he comes on screen for his long, unrealistic, and unfulfilling monologues in imitation of a much diminished and humourless Tyrion Lannister. Whereas I looked forward eagerly to each episode of the Young Pope, this one is real work to trundle through. This is the first episode where there wasn't a single entertaining moment. The dancing routine (as in the end credits) is wearing thin. It's old hat by now, and was most effective when used sparingly. Oh well, I suppose this definitely proves that the Young Pope's genius was mostly by accident of converging circumstances, and not a success to be repeated.