The Borgias
“Flesh and Blood”
- 2011 –2013
- Canceled
- TV-MA
★ 7.6 TMDB Rating · 537 votes
Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth for himself and his family.
- Created by
- Neil Jordan
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 29
- Episode length
- ~50m
- First aired
- Apr 3, 2011
- Networks
- Showtime
- Original language
- English
- Origin
- United States
Cast of The Borgias
Jeremy Irons
Rodrigo Borgia
François Arnaud
Cesare Borgia
Holliday Grainger
Lucrezia Borgia
Sean Harris
Micheletto
Thure Lindhardt
Rufio
Sebastian de Souza
Alfonso of Aragon
Where to Stream The Borgias by Country
- United States
- Streaming on fuboTV, Paramount+Rent or buy on Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies
- United Kingdom
- Streaming on Paramount+, Sky Go, Channel 4Rent or buy on Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
- India
- Streaming on JioHotstar
- Canada
- Streaming on Prime VideoRent or buy on Apple TV Store
- Australia
- Streaming on Paramount+
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Seasons
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Specials
Mar 31, 2011
4 episodes
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Season 1
Apr 3, 2011
9 episodes
Pope Innocent VIII dies. Rodrigo Borgia wins election as Pope Alexander VI by bribing enough of the cardinals to vote for him in conclave. Alexander "packs" the College of Cardinals with 13 new members, including his son Cesare. He then tries to contract an alliance with the powerful family of Cardinal Ascanio Sforza, one of his two original rivals for the Papacy. That alliance, ever fragile, breaks after Alexander's other rival, Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere (the future Pope Julius II), contracts his own alliance with the King of France for an invasion of Italy.
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Season 2
Apr 8, 2012
10 episodes
Having survived the French invasion with his Papacy intact (just barely), Alexander VI containues to advance his agenda. But the Sforza family continues to thwart him, leading him to make physical war upon them. Nor has Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere given up trying to rid the Vatican of Alexander. Having failed to depose the Pope legally, Cardinal della Rovere plots to assassinate him.
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Season 3
Apr 14, 2013
10 episodes
Alexander VI survives Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere's assassination attempt, because his daughter Lucrezia knows how to treat catarella poisoning. Alexander's war with the Sforza family continues and escalates. Alexander now plots to turn the Papacy into an explicitly hereditary office.
