• The Borgias
    All Season 1 Season 2

    Show summary:
    The show follows the Borgia family that rose to power in Italy during the Renaissance.


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    The Borgias - Season 2 Episode 3

    Alexander tells a grief-stricken Lucrezia that, because Paolo committed suicide, he cannot be given a Christian burial, so she refuses to eat or feed her baby in protest. Meanwhile, the French army is on the march fro...
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    The Borgias - Season 2 Episode 2

    , the young stable hand from Pesaro, arrives in Rome hoping to reunite with Lucrezia and their child, whom he's never seen; Giulia turns her attention to doing charity work and takes a disguised Alexander out among th...
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    The Borgias - Season 2 Episode 1

    A cache of long-lost Italian artifacts is discovered, inspiring Pope Alexander VI to throw a pagan-theme feast for the people of Rome in the Season 2 premiere. Meanwhile, Alexander's mistress discovers he's taken anot...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 9

    In the season finale, Pope Alexander, abandoned by his cardinals, faces Charles, whom he crowns "King of France and Naples" and hopes that gesture and his humility will be enough to save his papacy. Meanwhile, Della R...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 8

    Paolo helps Lucrezia and Giulia escape Giovanni's estate, but the women wind up as captives of the advancing French army. At the Vatican, Pope Alexander worries whether his few remaining troops will be able to stop th...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 7

    The armies of the French invade Italy and decimate the town of Lucca as Della Rovere comes to comprehend what damage he has wrought with his warmongering as many powerful Italian leaders flee the onslaught. Meanwhile,...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 6

    When Pope Alexander learns that Della Rovere is seeking to form an alliance with France's King Charles, he decides to forge a union between Rome and Naples by marrying off his youngest son to the older Neapolitan prin...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 5

    Lucrezia turns her attentions to a handsome young stable boy as a temporary escape from her loveless marriage. Meanwhile, Cesare has fallen in love with an influential baron's wife and takes drastic steps to ensure sh...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 4

    Lucrezia is deeply disappointed to discover her real mother has been banned from her wedding to Giovanni Sforza, whom she's never met. Meanwhile, Della Rovere goes to Florence to broker a deal with the powerful Medici...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 3

    Jews displaced by the Spanish Inquisition receive a welcome in Rome---for a price. Meanwhile, the pope contemplates a marriage of political expedience for Lucrezia; Cesare sends Micheletto to Naples to assassinate Car...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 2

    Rodrigo schemes and bribes his way into being elected head of the Catholic Church as Pope Alexander VI, and has his son Cesare named a cardinal. Another son, Juan, is put in charge of the papal armies, and daughter Lu...
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    The Borgias - Season 1 Episode 1

    Rodrigo schemes and bribes his way into being elected head of the Catholic Church as Pope Alexander VI, and has his son Cesare named a cardinal. Another son, Juan, is put in charge of the papal armies, and daughter Lu...