Club. By this point in his papacy, Pius XIII is almost immune to criticism—or, at least, immune to being dunked on in meetings. Over the course of the finale, he manages to extricate himself from a meeting with the Patriarch Of Moscow (who, notably, stares at the Venys Of Willendorf), in a totally dialogue- free scene building to the Red Army Choir’s rendition of “Kalinka.” It’s absurd, intense, and elusive, everything we’ve come to expect from The Young Pope. Later in the episode, he has a dream or a vision of the assembled past popes, and is (correctly) rude even to them. But in this, the first season finale, The Young Pope has met his match: children. Somehow, even after the baptism debacle, Lenny can still be induced to do annoying things he doesn’t want to do if Sofia is involved.
In this case, he’s agreed to give a tour of the Vatican to a group of children (is this a thing popes usually do?), who are very nervous to meet him since he’s, uh, the pope. When a storm begins, Lenny tells the children that raindrops are the tears of Christ, which means the children have made God angry—leading them to sob and be promptly swept out of the room by Sofia. Here is the end conclusion of The Young Pope: the pope making a bunch of children cry and then yelling at them to have a sense of humor. Later, he tells one of the children to “settle for what you get,” then admits his own well- documented disdain for settling.
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Though he tells Gutierrez that “the child pope has become a man,” that change has happened precisely through a conscious embrace of his own childish qualities. Lenny will never settle for anything, because he’s deeply insistent, and wants what he wants. But where he wanted to induce fear and formal respect in the early episodes, what does he want now? Surprisingly, something a bit closer to warmth. In particular, there’s Lenny’s conversation with the seemingly hapless Aguirre, who has been in the background for most of the season.
The round- faced cardinal offers a seeming platitude about being there to make people happy, but if there’s one thing Lenny has disdained during his papacy, it’s happiness—and he comes to embrace it more here. Notably, the pope’s admitted childishness and naivet. At the beginning of the episode, he listens to a radio broadcast documenting the world’s apparently rapt response to his love letters—people have been moved, to the point where the global media is now focusing on love instead of evil.
When he meets with Sofia to discuss the Italian prime minister, who has backed off from his planned reforms, the pope says “You have no idea how many objectives can be attained by humiliating one’s fellow man,” indicating some degree of commitment to his old ways. He even reacts negatively in his conversation with Aguirre, though it’s clear that the gears in his mind are turning, trying to find a new way to approach his office. Or—is humiliation a childish tactic? Children can be cruel, too. But children also learn, and in one respect, the story of The Young Pope is the story of Pius XIII making a real friend: Bernardo Gutierrez.
The newly confident, assertive cardinal bluntly tells the pope that he’s gay—and the victim of child abuse. To continue his crusade against gay people in the clergy is, Gutierrez says, an “unacceptable generalization.” Indeed, though Lenny acts petulant about changing his mind, it does seem like he relies on Gutierrez’s judgment and is willing to soften on some of his more reactionary stances.
Gutierrez’s argument is also even more obvious given the state of Kurtwell, who is a bit more of a pathetic figure than a villainous one here. In his “trial,” he tells the same story about his old super as a way of justifying his behavior—the kind of sappy origin story I was really hoping we weren’t going to get. Still, the pope comes down on the side of justice (mostly), and sends him off to Alaska, concluding: “Your disease has deceived you.”Perhaps most importantly for Lenny’s childish side, he’s fully embraced his own imagination. Or, as he puts it to Marivaux, “Goodness, unless combined with imagination, runs the risk of being mere exhibitionism.” That’s a good way of describing Sorrentino’s own approach to the show, which has always taken opportunities for visual and dramatic flair when a more straightforward framing might have sufficed. During this conversation, Marivaux lays out all of Lenny’s miracles—incidentally pointing out that in each miracle, there was a much simpler, prosaic, adult solution to the problem, which could easily have characterized a non- Sorrentino version of the show. Esther could have gone to the doctor, or Lenny could simply have shut down Sister Antonia’s charity villages. This, Sorrentino suggests, seems to be kind of the point.
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Lenny says several goodbyes throughout this episode, including one literal goodbye when he sends Sister Mary off to Africa. In their last scene together, he’s wearing a simple priest’s outfit—suggesting he’s become a man both as an adult, and as a pope. So Lenny goes to Venice rather than Guatemala (where he was going to visit a group of the children healed by the Blessed Juana), because even when he’s nominally at peace, Lenny can’t resist the allure of his missing parents. The final sequence in Venice is rife with tension—it’s been a while since we really saw the pope give a speech (he isn’t really present during the Africa address), and the scene is charged with all of the built- up mystery from the entirety of his papacy. The pope, having internalized the lessons of the Blessed Juana, works through mystery and contradiction in several pairs of opposites, then concludes by saying that God “smiles.” The crowd understands, and roars. Lenny is, finally, accepted. Except that he does see his parents, and they abandon him again.
Here, finally, is Lenny’s most genuine expression of faith. Like his other prayers, this one seems to work—Lenny collapses, and his eyes roll back in his head as Gutierrez calls for a doctor.
We see a brief shot of a cloud that looks suspiciously like the image ofthe Virgin Mary, then the camera zooms out and out and out, from the square to Venice to Italy to the entire world. Finally, the Earth itself becomes small behind the words “The Young Pope,” followed by “The End.” What does this mean? Is Lenny dead? The conclusion seems to imply that, contrary to several reports, there wasn’t supposed to be a second season of the show.
There are a ton of different interpretations that I hope to be able to discuss in the coming months (did Lenny die because he revealed himself to the public? Like the rest of this show, it.
Lenny actually tries to be sympathetic, but clearly doesn’t really understand how. We also get an odd last moment with Caltanissetta, who appears, hair slicked- back, wearing sunglasses, shouting “You will say it!” repeatedly. Lenny has, apparently, discovered his second youth. Silvio Orlando should be nominated for an Emmy, if only for Voiello’s expression when he watches Sister Mary fly away.
Someone who knows a bit more about the specific references than me should chime in, but my guess is that the old pope who talks to Lenny in his dream/vision is Peter. That’s a banal platitude.”One big loose end: the prostitute from episode five, who realizes the man in a track she saw nervously sitting in a hotel was, in fact, the pope. And that’s it for season one of The Young Pope!
This is a wild piece of work, and will almost certainly be one of my favorite TV shows of the year. Maybe I’ll see you in 2.
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The episode is a spoof of the Fox television drama 2. Principal Skinner's new Counter Truancy Unit (CTU), led by Lisa Simpson, attempting to prevent a stink bomb being released at Springfield Elementary School. Guest stars include Kiefer Sutherland and Mary Lynn Rajskub as their characters from 2. Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian. It won the 2. 00.
Annie Award for Best Writing in an Animated Television Production. When the bullies Jimbo, Dolph and Kearney play truant, Milhouse is assigned on a mission to spy on them. At the Power Plant, Homer is found to be the owner of a container of expired and highly pungent yogurt and is ordered to dispose of it. Homer tries to return the yogurt to Apu, but Apu refuses to take it due to its unbearable stench and, desperate to get rid of it, takes Homer to the yogurt section and offers him whatever he wants there. While Homer and Apu are distracted, the bullies take the yogurt. Outside, Homer unwittingly breaks Milhouse's cover, and the bullies throw them both in a trash container and send it rolling down an avenue.
Meanwhile, Marge discovers that there is a bake sale at the school that day, and realizes she has just 2. In order to save time, she drastically increases the oven temperature to 1,2.
Marge desperately attempts to cover it up with pink and white frosting before rushing to the bake sale. Lisa suggests that Bart help them, though he only agrees after negotiating immunity from punishment for all his past and future pranks (and making Skinner teach him a new swear word). At Jimbo's house, the bullies make a powerful stink bomb (which resembles the canisters of Sentox Nerve Gas from season 5 of 2. During his investigation, Bart's phone call is accidentally crossed with a call from Jack Bauer of 2.
Upon returning to school, he discovers that Martin is a double- agent working for the bullies. Before Bart can tell Lisa about Martin's double- dealing, Martin knocks him unconscious and takes him to the ventilation room, where the bullies tie up Bart. When Willie stumbles upon the bullies, they overpower him and tie him up too. The bullies then return Martin's ant farm, which they had used to blackmail him into working for them, but Martin is devastated to learn one of their ants has joined the bullies' cause. Later, he hangs himself by his underwear on a clothing hook, giving himself a wedgie after putting on his hall monitor sash (as an homage to the suicide in A Few Good Men as well as that of the character Walt Cummings on Season 5 of 2. At the bake sale, the bullies start the three- minute timer for the bomb. Bart, still tied up, manages to contact Lisa by his cell phone, telling her to have Skinner dump the hot dog water to short circuit the ventilation fan.
Skinner starts filling up the room with the water. Running out of air and floating dangerously close to the sharp ceiling fan blades, Bart swims down with the chair tied to his back to the room's only window, which faces the bake sale room. Chief Wiggum is unable to shoot through the bulletproof glass, but Marge then throws her burnt cake like a discus through the window, breaking the windows and allowing Bart, Willie, the bomb, and all the water to flood into the room. Lisa defuses the bomb with one second to spare. Bauer and his CTU SWAT Team then arrive to arrest Bart for prank- calling him, having diverted all CTU's resources into finding him.
As he says that, a nuclear bomb explodes in the distance, but to the crowd's relief Bauer assures them that it went off in neighboring Shelbyville. Production. The episode includes many of the show's hallmarks, such as the multiple split screens, the timer before and after the commercial break, and extended opening credits running over the opening scenes of the narrative. Jack Bauer and Chloe O'Brian, voiced by their original portrayers, make cameo appearances. None though can top this excellent riff which begins with Kiefer Sutherland announcing 'Previously on 2.