So the best thing about The Borgias 2x07 was...
Caterina Sforza....
Now, let's get one thing out of the way....this woman is not going to get any mother of the year awards any time soon. In fact, if social services existed back in the Renaissance, I would ask that they send someone over and take her son away and put him in therapy post haste. Because if your warlord mother's response to watching you get tortured is lifting trou in front of the Papal Army and proclaiming: "Go ahead and kill my son, bitches! There's more where that came from!" Although I do love that they were faithful to that particular legend about her.
That is going to make for some awkward dinner conversation though. "So, Mom...are we ever going to talk about the whole siege of Forli thing where you let someone cut off my finger and nearly kill me?"
But I have mad respect for a woman that committed to her principles. Her defiance was balls to walls FIERCE and I can admire that. The way I can admire Cersei Lannister but at the same time, want to hurl her off a cliff. Thank you, creator of The Borgias. At least I know that if Moffat keeps continuously disappointing in the anti-heroine department, I will always have you and your bevy of badass babes to fall back on.
OTOH, the rest of the ep was sort of just ok for me. Juan is back and ridden with syphilis which surprises no one. (although I'm wondering why Juan seems more like the Cesare of history than Cesare does. He gets the pox, the seige of Forli, the all around douchiness) Cesare hangs around Florence and is generally boring for most of the episode which is a shame. Lucrezia continues to explore her inner vixen. I am convinced that this girl can flirt the pants off anyone whether it's her would-be suitor's brother or her baby's wetnurse. But I find her latest love interest sort of dull. At least she acknowledges that it probably isn't love, just a longing to sow her wild oats. And since she's young, I'll let it pass.
And no Giulia Farnese. At all. WTH show?
Now, let's get one thing out of the way....this woman is not going to get any mother of the year awards any time soon. In fact, if social services existed back in the Renaissance, I would ask that they send someone over and take her son away and put him in therapy post haste. Because if your warlord mother's response to watching you get tortured is lifting trou in front of the Papal Army and proclaiming: "Go ahead and kill my son, bitches! There's more where that came from!" Although I do love that they were faithful to that particular legend about her.
That is going to make for some awkward dinner conversation though. "So, Mom...are we ever going to talk about the whole siege of Forli thing where you let someone cut off my finger and nearly kill me?"
But I have mad respect for a woman that committed to her principles. Her defiance was balls to walls FIERCE and I can admire that. The way I can admire Cersei Lannister but at the same time, want to hurl her off a cliff. Thank you, creator of The Borgias. At least I know that if Moffat keeps continuously disappointing in the anti-heroine department, I will always have you and your bevy of badass babes to fall back on.
OTOH, the rest of the ep was sort of just ok for me. Juan is back and ridden with syphilis which surprises no one. (although I'm wondering why Juan seems more like the Cesare of history than Cesare does. He gets the pox, the seige of Forli, the all around douchiness) Cesare hangs around Florence and is generally boring for most of the episode which is a shame. Lucrezia continues to explore her inner vixen. I am convinced that this girl can flirt the pants off anyone whether it's her would-be suitor's brother or her baby's wetnurse. But I find her latest love interest sort of dull. At least she acknowledges that it probably isn't love, just a longing to sow her wild oats. And since she's young, I'll let it pass.
And no Giulia Farnese. At all. WTH show?