Very disappointed :(

Really Surprised!

Dreadfully Boring

Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

This show was so good that I watched all the episodes twice --> I don't ever do that unless it's a REALLY really good show. Richard Madden's performance is impeccable, and the show did a great job recreating 15th century Florence. I've seen reviews of people complaining about the show's slight inaccuracies, but the liberties the show took added to the story in my opinion, and it really wasn't that big of a deal.I loved seeing Cosimo and Contessina's relationship evolving throughout the episodes. It's definitely very different from traditional Hollywood- style love stories; it was more realistic, and also more beautiful. I personally believe that Cosimo did in fact have affections for her, even if he did always suppress them. The story, the script, production, costumes and everything else about the show was simply outstanding. Definitely looking forward to s2.

A better title would have been "A Fictional Account of 16th Century Florence Involving The Medici" with a caveat that no one portrayed in this series actually resembles anyone who lived.SPOILERI was willing to overlook the total exclusion of one of the Medici boys, the made up loves and murders, the overly pretty appearance of the characters in the name of Hollywood, however, completely changing the death of Lorenzo and making it a paltry low handed death is unforgivable. The real lives of the Medici were full of drama and there was no need to give Lorenzo that treatment. What of the real assassination attempt in the church? Surely the writers could have had used that actual event to their advantage. After such a fantastical episode and total ruining of Lorenzo's character I can't be bothered to watch anymore.

This show could have just about been any period of time in history or even something made up and it would still look and sound the same - there's nothing remotely Italian or authentic about it. WIth the quality of TV shows these days this one and cliché ridden Hollywood contrivances falls short. Gave it a chance for Dustin Hoffman, and he was great but otherwise no

It seems to be fashionable nowadays to depict previous eras as drab and grungy. In this instance the milieu in question is Renaissance Italy. Upon viewing this series, one cannot help but wonder if the producers ever bothered to do any research whatsoever. Even the most superficial examination of 15th Century Italian art would reveal that Italians of that era were anything but drab, dirty and unkept, especially those possessed of any degree of wealth and power. Renaissance Italy was literally one of the most colorful periods of European history. Yet all the characters in "Medici" dress in drab garments of black, brown or dark blue, and are usually depicted as scraggly and unkempt, as if they did not have valets to make sure they were well turned out. Even Cardinals in the Vatican are depicted dressed in black, and even the Vatican itself is depicted as drab and colorless. To make matters worse, the series was filmed using a process that subdues all the colors, as if the producers deliberately intended to render 15th Century Florence even more drab.In that respect one might wish to contrast this series with the 1949 film "Prince of Foxes", which was set in roughly the same locale and era. While a Hollywood production, "Prince of Foxes" was actually filmed in Italy with the assistance of Italian film makers. Even though it was filmed in black-and-white, the costumes and settings in "Prince of Foxes" provide a far more authentic depiction of just how colorful Renaissance Italy actually was.