BORGIA VS THE BORGIAS

[jenni_blog]

The Borgias was a TV series on the Showcase channel here that I dearly wanted to see but it was being shown too late for me (10:00 PM). Since I've had Netflix I discovered recently that it was showing a TV miniseries called Borgia and at first I mistook it for The Borgias, not noticing the difference in the titles.

I watched the first episode of Borgia and was hooked. It's very involving from the start, and very graphic; in fact, one of the executive producers on the show also worked on Rome, and the two series have a lot in common. Borgia is a French-German production, but in the English language.

Another curiosity is that one of the characters is played by the same actor who plays Samwell Tarly in HBO's Game of Thrones.

Borgia was produced in 2011 and first shown in July. I had never heard of it before, but it's really good. There is an interesting review on IMDb, comparing it to The Borgias, here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1736341/

While I still want to see The Borgias, I am enjoying Borgia so much that the Showcase production will have to wait!

Borgia is highly recommended! :)

EDIT: Because the stupid IMDb link might not work, here is a link to the official German site:

http://borgia.zdf.de/

But I loved the review so much at IMDb that I think anyone interested in watching one or both Borgia series would like to read it. :)

Comments

[crazy-girl-86.livejournal.com]

There has been a six parts documentary on TV here some weeks ago, which I wanted to watch but got to know about it too late so that I had already missed the first three parts, therefor I didn't watch the other either. :(

Now, the series is on TV but I also missed the first two parts... and afterwards decided they are showing it too late anyway and I would rather fall asleep watching it than paying much attention. It's a pity, because it actually sounds really interesting.

Maybe, I'll find a book about them. ;-) Books work better for me.

[just-jenni.livejournal.com]

It's very interesting about The Borgias. I particularly was interested in learning more about Lucrezia. I think a book about them would be be fascinating. :)