Home > The New Pope > Season 1 « TV Series Page The New Pope: Season 1 (2020) Want to see Episode List Season 1 The New Pope Critics Consensus Though its predecessor's shadow looms large, devout fans will still find much to like in The New Pope's exploration of power dynamics and sumptuous strangeness. 88% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 42 92% Audience Score User Ratings: 62 More Info × Close Submit review Want to see Submit review Super Reviewer Super Reviewer Tap to review this movie Review this tv season Edit Review Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit Continue Super Reviewer Step 2 of 2 How did you get your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. You're almost there! Just confirm how you got your ticket. Super Reviewer Rate this season Oof, that was Rotten. Meh, it passed the time. It’s good – I’d recommend it. Awesome! So Fresh: Absolute Must See! What did you think of this tv season? (optional) Submit How did you get your ticket? Submit By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. Episodes 1 First Episode Air date: Jan 13, 2020 Series premiere. Following his sudden heart attack, Pope Pius XIII lies in a coma while his followers fervently pray for a miraculous recovery. As the threat of terrorism and the potential risks of Pius's idolatry loom, Secretary of State Cardinal Voiello is pressured to bring a new pope to power and, with the conclave at a deadlock, makes a hasty move that throws the Church into even greater chaos. More 2 Second Episode Air date: Jan 20, 2020 Rumors swirl about the Church's role in a sudden death, so Voiello, Gutierrez, Assente, Aguirre and Sofia travel to the U.K. to the grand estate of Sir John Brannox, hoping to convince him to return with them to the Vatican and accept the holiest of roles. An alluring but sensitive man who carries with him an unshakeable family tragedy, Brannox is harder to sway than expected, but a determined Voiello presses ahead. Meanwhile, Esther shares her son's story with the press to makes ends meet. More 3 Third Episode Air date: Jan 27, 2019 Still considering the offer of Supreme Pontiff, Brannox reflects on his past, while Voiello makes clear his commitment to his mission's success. After being elected pope and taking the name "John Paul III," Brannox preaches the importance of family, truth and love in his first public homily and to the cardinals. Esther bonds with Fabiano, a widower and new member of the parish, who offers an unusual solution to her money woes. More 4 Fourth Episode Air date: Feb 3, 2020 John Paul III travels to Venice to visit Pius XIII. Meanwhile, a tragedy in Lourdes calls for the presence of the new Pope. More 5 Fifth Episode Air date: Feb 10, 2020 More 6 Sixth Episode Air date: Feb 17, 2020 More 7 Seventh Episode Air date: Feb 24, 2020 More 8 Eighth Episode Air date: Mar 2, 2020 More 9 Ninth Episode Air date: Mar 9, 2020 More The New Pope: Season 1 Videos 1:08 The New Pope: Season 1 Teaser 2 1:48 The New Pope: Season 1 Trailer 1:15 The New Pope: Season 1 Featurette - Character Confessional: Silvio Orlando View All Videos (3) Tv Season Info Genre: Drama Network: HBO Premiere Date: Jan 13, 2019 Exec. Producers: Lorenzo Mieli, Riccardo Neri, Elena Recchia, Caroline Benjo, Paolo Sorrentino, Simon Arnal, Jude Law, Carole Scotta, Mario Gianani, Jaume Roures, Javier Méndez, Nils Hartmann, Sonia Rovai Cast Jude Law as Pope Pius XIII John Malkovich as Pope John Paul III Javier Cámara as Cardinal Bernardo Gutierrez Silvio Orlando as Cardinal Angelo Voiello Ludivine Sagnier as Esther Cécile De France as Sofia Maurizio Lombardi as Cardinal Mario Assente Ramon Garcia as Aguirre Stefano Accorsi Mark Ivanir as Bauer Massimo Ghini Henry Goodman Ulrich Thomsen Sharon Stone Yuliya Snigir Marilyn Manson Alessandro Riceci as Fabiano Kiruna Stamell as Abbess of St. Therese Nora von Waldstatten as Sister Lisette Show More Cast News & Interviews for The New Pope: Season 1 9 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This January TV Premiere Dates 2020 What’s the Hellfire Club? Stranger Things Season 4 To Reveal All View All The New Pope: Season 1 News Episodes 1 First Episode Air date: Jan 13, 2020 Series premiere. Following his sudden heart attack, Pope Pius XIII lies in a coma while his followers fervently pray for a miraculous recovery. As the threat of terrorism and the potential risks of Pius's idolatry loom, Secretary of State Cardinal Voiello is pressured to bring a new pope to power and, with the conclave at a deadlock, makes a hasty move that throws the Church into even greater chaos. More 2 Second Episode Air date: Jan 20, 2020 Rumors swirl about the Church's role in a sudden death, so Voiello, Gutierrez, Assente, Aguirre and Sofia travel to the U.K. to the grand estate of Sir John Brannox, hoping to convince him to return with them to the Vatican and accept the holiest of roles. An alluring but sensitive man who carries with him an unshakeable family tragedy, Brannox is harder to sway than expected, but a determined Voiello presses ahead. Meanwhile, Esther shares her son's story with the press to makes ends meet. More 3 Third Episode Air date: Jan 27, 2019 Still considering the offer of Supreme Pontiff, Brannox reflects on his past, while Voiello makes clear his commitment to his mission's success. After being elected pope and taking the name "John Paul III," Brannox preaches the importance of family, truth and love in his first public homily and to the cardinals. Esther bonds with Fabiano, a widower and new member of the parish, who offers an unusual solution to her money woes. More 4 Fourth Episode Air date: Feb 3, 2020 John Paul III travels to Venice to visit Pius XIII. Meanwhile, a tragedy in Lourdes calls for the presence of the new Pope. More 5 Fifth Episode Air date: Feb 10, 2020 More 6 Sixth Episode Air date: Feb 17, 2020 More 7 Seventh Episode Air date: Feb 24, 2020 More 8 Eighth Episode Air date: Mar 2, 2020 More 9 Ninth Episode Air date: Mar 9, 2020 More Critic Reviews for The New Pope Season 1 All Critics (42) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (37) | Rotten (5) "The New Pope" has a lot to say about the church's role in the modern world, its significance to socio-political events, and what's expected of its leaders - and it says it with a sharpened edge. Jan 13, 2020 | Rating: A- | Full Review… Ben Travers indieWire Top Critic Camp extravagance is the keynote of The New Pope, another season of visually sumptuous, rhetorically grandiose and thematically provocative Vatican capers. Jan 21, 2020 | Full Review… Liam Fay Times (UK) Top Critic Unlike season one, whose story seemed to lurch along as if truggling to find its way, season two's narrative unspools steadily - if slowly, at times - and arrives upon a conclusion that feels resolute and satisfying. And -- happily, crucially -- weird. Jan 13, 2020 | Full Review… Glen Weldon NPR Top Critic For the most part the series is as delicious as it was before... The true anchor of the series, it's now clear, is not any particular pope-star but rather Sorrentino's strange artistic vision. Jan 15, 2020 | Full Review… Spencer Kornhaber The Atlantic Top Critic This is a luscious and ambitious show that I'm surprised has made it to a second series. Jan 21, 2020 | Full Review… Camilla Long Times (UK) Top Critic It can also veer into indulgence, sometimes seeming to shock for shock's sake. Prepare yourself for those moments... but do not let them stop you from gobbling up every strange, sad, sexy, unsettling second of this series. Jan 13, 2020 | Full Review… Allison Shoemaker RogerEbert.com Top Critic If it's a sense of artfully framed and beautifully shot mischief you want, The New Pope is your only man. Jan 21, 2020 | Full Review… John Boland Sunday Independent (Ireland) Without Lenny at its center, The New Pope can dig deeper into the workplace politics of the Church, and mine the conundrums not of the boss but of the entire organization. Jan 17, 2020 | Full Review… Tori Preston Pajiba Slow-moving drama has nudity, language, religious hypocrisy. Jan 16, 2020 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Joyce Slaton Common Sense Media The power of The New Pope isn't in its shock moments as much as its in its self-awareness. Jan 15, 2020 | Full Review… Justin Kirkland Esquire Magazine John Paul III is played by John Malkovich, and it is an example of perfect casting. Jan 23, 2020 | Full Review… John Anderson America Magazine The New Pope, despite the more somber and mournful tone, is still exhilarating. Jan 17, 2020 | Full Review… Dan Jackson Thrillist View All Critic Reviews (42) Audience Reviews for The New Pope: Season 1 4h ago Same great production as previous series. Ronald R 20h ago The most fabulous quirky poke at the clergy loving all the writhing half naked nuns dancing before flashing disco crosses! Scheming cardinals and eyeliner wearing pope. Weird wonderful and compelling Debbie P 3d ago Incredible show, as good as the first season. Sir John Brannox is an excellent character! Elia P 4d ago Charming, surreal, unique and hilarious. Ivana C 5d ago Wow, really wow! Amazing and brilliant...Can't wait for the rest of it..Was afraid that without Jude Law it would be as compelling as the first one but the second one is even more extraordinary, extravagant and beautiful until now. Sorrentino is a genius.. 5d ago Loved young pope but this new version is not quirky at all, not subtly sexy but almost plain raunchy, not nearly as visually stunning, not ironic and takes unnecessarily repeatedly cheap shots at Meghan. Loving the director, the first version, Malkovich, it is a very disappointing experience. Yannick L 6d ago Was not sure I would like the second season, but yea, I was pulled in. Mark S Jan 16, 2020 Absolutely loved it!! Jinny L Jan 16, 2020 The show is as good as the first season. Camille G Jan 16, 2020 As much as I like Silvio Orlando's character, I didn't understand at all why they decided to have him play two characters, that the writers couldn't have come up with ANYTHING else and just went with this. Joe H See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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