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how on earth does this have a rating of 8.2 on IMDb??


I mean, at this point I'll finish out the season since there are only two episodes left, but I regret starting it. The way this series is done smacks of one huge waste of time.


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Why are you watching it if you don't think it's good? There is so much out there, why waste time?

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Yeah, I actually never did finish season 2.

And as for your questions: the show has such big names associated with it (not to mention HBO, if that still means anything) - I kept waiting for my efforts to pay off. Unfortunately that never happened.

I said after season 1 "I wish this material was in the hands of a better storyteller" (https://moviechat.org/tt3655448/The-Young-Pope/59c9c4c5a412d200125a3616/I-wish-this-material-was-in-the-hands-of-a-more-skillful-storyteller), but season 2 was so much worse.


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I just finish bingeing both the young Pope and the new pope since last Friday and although season 1 better, season 2 was still entertaining, despite characters already suffering from caricaturisation.

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