The Borgias Season 2 Episode 3
Title: The Beautiful Deception Summary: Alexander VI refuses to allow a Catholic burial for Paolo, despite his doubts about the stable boy’s suicide, causing Lucrezia to embark on a hunger strike that threatens the life of her infant son; the French army heads back to Rome, allied with Sforza; Della Rovere slips back into the city unnoticed to launch a plot against the Pope’s life. (more…)
April 22nd, 2012 by admin
The Borgias Season 2 Episode 2
Title: Paolo Summary: The stable boy who fathered Lucrezia’s child travels to Rome to rendezvous with her but suffers an unfortunate fate at the hands of Juan; the Pope’s lovers Giulia and Vittoria take him in disguise on a revelatory tour of Rome’s indigent. (more…)
April 15th, 2012 by admin
The Borgias Episode 9 Nessuno (Nobody)
Nessuno (Nobody) Summary: Abandoned by even his cardinals, Alexander meets King Charles with humility and saves his throne, even eliciting a confession from the conqueror he crowns as the new “King of France and Naples;” Della Rovere despairs as Charles abandons him; Lucrezia safely gives birth to a son in a convent as the Borgias secure an annulment of her marriage and plot revenge on...
May 21st, 2011 by admin
Watch The Borgias Episode 8 The Art of War
Title: The Art of War Summary: The invaders capture a fleeing and pregnant Lucrezia as they march on Rome, but she charms King Charles and is allowed to persuade her brother Juan to withdraw his hopelessly outmatched defensive troops; Pope Alexander VI awaits to learn of his fate as Charles enters the city and makes his way to the Vatican. (more…)
May 15th, 2011 by admin
The Borgias Episode 7
Title: Death on a Pale Horse Summary: The invasion by King Charles of France and Della Rovere proceeds with victory seemingly inevitable as the French sack the city of Lucca and the Italian powers flee to their banner, with Lucrezia’s husband Giovanni Sforza poised to join them in the name of Milan; inventor Leonardo Da Vinci (guest star John Lynch) shows his drawings and blueprints for war machinery...
May 7th, 2011 by admin
The Borgias Episode 6
Title: The French King Summary: Della Rovere reaches France and strikes a bargain with its ruler to invade Italy and install him on the Papal throne in exchange for control of Naples; Rodrigo attempts to thwart the invasion through an alliance by marrying his youngest son Joffre to Princess Sancia of Naples (guest star Emmannuelle Chriqui), but Juan nearly sabotages the plan by seducing his prospective...
April 30th, 2011 by admin
The Borgias Episode 5
Title: The Borgias in Love Summary: Alternately neglected and abused by her cruel husband, Lucrezia has an affair with Paolo, a handsome stable boy; Cesare strikes a bargain with Machiavelli: deny French troops passage across his masters’ lands in exchange for suppression of Savonarola, a fiery preacher of anti-Medici sermons; in love with baroness Ursula, Cesare takes drastic action to get rid...
April 22nd, 2011 by admin
The Borgias Lucrezia’s Wedding Episode 4
Air date: Sunday April 17, 2011 Title: Lucrezia’s Wedding Summary: Lucrezia’s financially and politically motivated wedding to Milanese nobleman Giovanni Sforza is a disaster thanks to Juan’s inappropriately bawdy play in his sister’s honor, Cesare’s brazen flirting with a married baroness, and the arrival of the Borgia children’s illegitimate mother; Della Rovere...
April 18th, 2011 by admin
The Borgias Episode 3
Air date: April 10, 2011 Title: The Moor Summary: His coffers depleted by his expensive rise to power, Rodrigo seeks funds through a profitable marriage for Lucrezia that will ally with him Milan, and charges a fee for safe haven in the Holy City to Jews displaced by the Spanish Inquisition; the Borgias host a charming Turkish prince; Micheletto is ordered to rid his patrons of the ongoing threat posed...
April 8th, 2011 by admin
Watch The Borgias The Assassin
Air date:Sunday April 3, 2011 Title: The Assassin Summary: Rodrigo Borgia starts to use his new title of Pope to his advantage. (more…)
April 3rd, 2011 by admin
