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A young cardinal, Lenny Belardo, becomes pope of the Catholic Church when machinations of the leading contenders to gain the position themselves fail. He takes the name of Pius XIII and proceeds to challenge the established traditions and practices of the Vatican. He installs Sister Mary, the nun who raised him in an orphanage, to serve as his chief adviser. Driven by his desire to confront his parents, who abandoned him as a boy, Belardo takes the church in a new conservative direction, causing disruption inside and outside the Vatican.

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The script was written by Sorrentino, Stefano Rulli, Tony Grisoni and Umberto Contarello.[17] The cast, announced between July and August 2015, includes Jude Law as the young pope; Diane Keaton as Sister Mary; James Cromwell, Silvio Orlando, Scott Shepherd, Javier Cámara and Toni Bertorelli. It also includes Cécile de France, Ludivine Sagnier, Guy Boyd, Andre Gregory, Sebastian Roché, Marcello Romolo, Ignazio Oliva, Vladimir Bibic, Daniel Vivian and Nadie Kammalaweera.[18][1] The main character is almost always seen only from the waist up, to give the impression that he might be soaring. Sorrentino said he inherited this technique from Spike Lee.[19]

There are many layers here. There's the comedy of the pope's fussiness, trying different pairs of shoes to get his outfit just right, juxtaposing his care for his appearance with the gravity of his office. There's the voyeuristic confusion of the other priests (including Valente, one of the pope's attendants) peeking in to see what he's going to wear. And, of course, there's the grand entrance of the papal tiara, which is basically a fetish object for the pope. Jude Law's mouth is rather prominent in The Young Pope, but the way his lips part just so as he stares down the crown is uncomfortably sensual, and almost certainly a part of the design for the scene.

The best thing about this scene isn't the careful composition of the shots or the lushness of the vestments. It's that the whole thing is impossible to watch without cracking a smile. But, you might ask, did The Young Pope really need to enlist LMFAO to achieve this effect? Sorrentino himself answers this question with a level of certainty that would impress the pope: "No other musical attempts were carried out for this scene."

As a last ditch effort to save himself, Kurtwell tries to take the young pope down. He calls up a New Yorker journalist, Bartley Taylor, late at night and invites him to his home. He reveals to Taylor that, when he took over a position Belardo held at the Church, he inherited his desk and found a sheaf of letters. Those letters, it turned out, were a series of love letters written to a girl in California who Belardo was passionately in love with.

Episode six, however, ended with the heartbreaking suicide of a young Latino man who wanted to be a priest, but was rejected for his sexuality. As episode seven reveals, unsurprisingly, this puts Andrew in an emotional tailspin that undermines his faith in the Vatican and Pius XIII. It doesn't help matters that Pius XIII doesn't exhibit any sorrow for what happened to the young man, because he says he now gets to be closer to God. Ugh.

We understand Andrew's decision to want to leave Vatican City and return to Honduras to do the lord's work as some type of penance for the shit storm that's going on with the new pope. But if anyone knew the full story, maybe they would've suggested he stay away from the country. 041b061a72