Superb series by Paolo Sorrentino got high marks on rottentomatoes.com but not nearly as high as usual political correctness movies. In the first series, there were no cliches at all. Our nurse Ratched forbade us to see the last series and the people told me that they were going from impeccable to just weird. Overall low marks, probably, happened because of the already mentioned inability of American critics' milieu to analyze imperfect heroes and plots without clear delineation of good and evil. They simply cannot imagine good people without character or much personality, villains without obvious vulnerabilities and trauma, but above all, that the most people are neither saints not hobs but somewhere in between. They also could not digest, for instance, that a conniving, spiteful and liberal Cardinal Caltanissetta is genuinely concerned about well-being of the Catholic Church, while a serious and conservative Cardinal Spencer is a power-hungry alcoholic. My only regret is that Torrentino killed Cardinal Dussolier and exiled Diane Keaton too early in the series to sustain the tension of the plot.
