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"Since we&amp;#x27;ve got our new pope and all (congrats, Jorge Mario Bergoglio, who has chosen the rap name pope name Francis), I thought now might be a good time to address a peculiar little drama pilot that&amp;#x27;s taking shape over at Showtime. It&amp;#x27;s called The Vatican, and it&amp;#x27;s about...the Vatican. The weird thing is, save for Anna Friel&amp;#x27;s character--she&amp;#x27;ll play a New York party girl--everybody&amp;#x27;s pretty much a clergyman. And by everybody, I mean some actors that we&amp;#x27;re not used to looking at in quite that way. Kyle Chandler plays a cardinal, which is confusing because... who among us did not harbor a Coach crush in the heyday of Friday Night Lights? Matthew Goode plays a &amp;quot;papal secretary,&amp;quot; and even after nine years of Catholic schooling, I can&amp;#x27;t tell you for sure if that means he&amp;#x27;s also a priest, but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it does. Then there&amp;#x27;s Sebastian Koch, who isn&amp;#x27;t exactly tough on the eyes, mostly because he&amp;#x27;s clearly the baby of Liam Neeson and Jason Statham. But here&amp;#x27;s my question--and I don&amp;#x27;t think this show&amp;#x27;s gonna look anything like The Borgias, mind you--how invested can you really get in a show about guys who wear the collar? Like, best case scenario is that The Vatican is full of the same luscious OMG-that&amp;#x27;s-what-goes-on-in-this-secret-society?!? imagination that makes a movie like The Skulls appealing. But no matter what, the chips are stacked against it in terms of romantic possibilities being next to nil. Add in the fact that everyone&amp;#x27;s extremely good-looking, and you&amp;#x27;ve got what feels almost comically like a fashion photo shoot where everyone&amp;#x27;s dressed as clergy rather than actual clergy. Am I overthinking this, or do you think it&amp;#x27;s a little odd too? Photo: IMDB"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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