The Best Episodes Directed By Neil Jordan

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.2/10(9 votes)

   #1 - The Gunpowder Plot

   S3:E96/9/2013

   Lucrezia escapes with Alfonso and her baby from Naples while the Pope corners the market in sulfur, restricting others from manufacturing gunpowder.

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   6.8/10(25 votes)

   #2 - The Poisoned Chalice

   S1:E14/3/2011

   Rodrigo successfully bribes and intimidates his way into an election as Pope Alexander VI, making him the new leader of the Catholic Church; powerful Cardinals Della Rovere and Orsini oppose his rise; the Borgias recruit a talented assassin named Micheletto to their cause.

   Director:Neil Jordan

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   6.8/10(12 votes)

   #3 - The Assassin

   S1:E24/3/2011

   The new Pope wastes no time consolidating power and balancing opposition to him in the College of Cardinals by elevating his children to high office, installing Juan as head of the papal armies and Cesare as a cardinal and his successor, while seeking a politically fortuitous marriage for daughter Lucrezia.

   Director:Neil Jordan

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   6.5/10(13 votes)

   #4 - Paolo

   S2:E24/15/2012

   The stable boy who fathered Lucrezia's child travels to Rome to rendezvous with her but suffers an unfortunate fate at the hands of Juan; the Pope's lovers Giulia and Vittoria take him in disguise on a revelatory tour of Rome's indigent.

   Director:Neil Jordan

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   6.4/10(14 votes)

   #5 - The Borgia Bull

   S2:E14/8/2012

   Pope Alexander VI takes a new lover and throws a grand, pagan fete for the citizens of Rome when a cache of ancient artifacts is discovered; the rivalry between brothers Cesare and Juan spills into the streets; Lucrezia tends to her newborn child; now a pastoral priest once again, Della Rovere narrowly escapes an assassination attempt.

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   6.4/10(12 votes)

   #6 - The Prince

   S3:E106/16/2013

   Micheletto returns to Cesare briefly to help him destroy the walls of Forli and capture Caterina Sforza and later recruit her assassin Rufio.

   Director:Neil Jordan

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