“The Borgias couldn’t give a stuffed fig about sense”

If Camelot was anything to go by the actual series will fail to match the promise of the review and will be cancelled after one season.  Until then enjoy another epic review, this time of The Borgias, by Sarah Dempster at the Guardian’s TV blog. Created by director Neil Jordan, The Borgias is a potboiler in the (throbbing, purple) vein of The Tudors and Camelot. Stuffed to the chancel with priests, bums, greed, shouting, bribery, incest, poisonings and knockers, the …

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