16 New HBO Series You Need To Get Excited About

10. The Young Pope

Jude Law The Young Pope
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Coming from Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty), The Young Pope (a co-production between Sky, Canal+, and HBO) will tell the story of the first American Pope.

Jude Law will play Lenny Belardo, who becomes Pope Pius XIII, a complex, conservative, and controversial figure. Diane Keaton will co-star as Sister Mary, an American nun living in Vatican City, who helped Belardo reach the papacy.

It should look great, thanks to the direction from Sorrentino, while the acclaimed director intriguingly described the series as:

"The inner struggle between the huge responsibility of the head of the Catholic Church and the miseries of the simple man that fate (or the Holy Spirit) chose as Pontiff. Finally, how to handle and manipulate power in a state whose dogma and moral imperative is the renunciation of power and selfless love towards one€™s neighbor."

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