History Series / TheNewPope

* ObfuscatingStupidity: In a beautiful speech, Francis II reveals his supposed "naivety" which Voiello thought would make him easy to manipulate? "I lost my naivety years ago." He adds that he was the confessor not just to Lenny but to ''every'' Cardinal and knows all the dark secrets of the Vatican with Voiello realizing too late ''he'' was the one being played all this time.

''The New Pope'' is a MiniSeries and the {{sequel|series}} (or [[NewSeasonNewName second season?]]) to ''Series/TheYoungPope'', created and directed like the latter by Paolo Sorrentino, and produced by Creator/{{HBO}}, [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky Atlantic]], and Canal+. It premiered on January 13, 2020.

* NiceHat: Brannox is a real clothes horse and wears fashionable hats along with his dapper suits.

Previews: [[https://youtu.be/TAOD50blOKk Teaser]], [[https://youtu.be/WRhZ0mIATrM Trailer]].

''The New Pope'' is a MiniSeries and the {{sequel|series}} to ''Series/TheYoungPope'', created and directed like the latter by Paolo Sorrentino, and produced by Creator/{{HBO}}, [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky Atlantic]], and Canal+. It premiered on January 13, 2020.

* MrFanservice: The later episodes have a title sequence including a shirtless [[SexyPriest Lenny]] coming out of the sea and walking on a beach boardwalk past a procession of bikini-clad women.

''The New Pope'' is a MiniSeries and the sequel to ''Series/TheYoungPope'', created and directed like the latter by Paolo Sorrentino, and produced by Creator/{{HBO}}, [[Creator/{{Sky}} Sky Atlantic]], and Canal+. It premiered on January 13, 2020.

* {{Sequel}}: This miniseries picks up where ''The Young Pope'' left off, but given the title, it is not quite treated as a "second season" to ''The Young Pope''.

* TalkingToHimself: Silvio Orlando plays both Voiello and his rival Cardinal Hernández. The latter character is even only made different by a different pair of glasses and lacking the distinctive Voiello mole.

-->'''John Paul III:''' He does nothing for me.

* ActorAllusion: John Paul III asks a woman played by Sharon Stone not to uncross or recross her legs in his view. This is a reference to Stone's famous leg-uncrossing scene in ''Film/BasicInstinct''.

* TheCameo: Music/MarilynManson and Sharon Stone appear [[AsHimself Themselves]].

* BlatantLies: The trailer shows that Pope John Paul III considers his predecessor as "a great pope" in public, then calls him "the Devil" in private.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Turns out Voiello is even more ruthless with these than even Lenny was, transferring his nemeses to Kabul, Afghanistan with the implication that the victims lives' will constantly be at risk from the regions anti-Catholic sentiment.

* TheCameo: Music/MarilynManson appears AsHimself, and Sharon Stone has a cameo as a beautiful genius.

* ReassignedToAntarctica: Voiello delights in transferring his nemeses to Kabul, Afghanistan, a war-torn country with almost no open Christians.

** Bauer, the ambassador of the Holy See, is himself a ruthless power player who joins forces with Voiello because it is expedient to do so.

** Defied by John Paul III when he asks an attractive woman (played by Sharon Stone) not to uncross and recross her legs in his vision. When she pleads that her leg is falling asleep, he and the rest of the priests in attendance turn their heads while she changes her sitting position.

** When the cardinals pray [[spoiler:to be saved from the revolutionary policy of Francis II, comatose Lenny's finger twitches exactly when his successor dies]]. It's even [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Bauer, who tells Voiello, [[spoiler:they didn't kill the pope, because Lenny was first.]] However [[spoiler:hypertension is fairly common cause of death and it was clearly shown that he had high blood pressur]].
** Comatose Lenny [[spoiler:is apparently not only able to manifest well over 1,000 km from his body, but also to evesdrop, apparently hold a conversation and even physically interact with people and objects.]] It may be intended to be only figurative, but then [[spoiler:he explicitly tells Brannox what he said when he was alone]].

* MsFanservce:

* DistractedByTheSexy: Defied by John Paul III when he asks an attractive woman (played by Sharon Stone) not to uncross and recross her legs in his vision. When she pleads that her leg is falling asleep, he and the rest of the priests in attendance turn their heads while she changes her sitting position.
* FormerTeenRebel: John Paul III was TheQuincyPunk in his twenties before joining the church, probably while still processing his brother's death.

* KarmiHoudini: The three nuns who sexually abused a member of their order receive no punishment. The object of their abuse is simply taken out of their power. Of course, a running theme in the series is God's infinite capacity for forgiveness.