For those of you obsessed with and frustrated at the long wait you’ll now have to endure before the arrival of Season 4, I suspect that a new historical dramedy arriving next week — with a story that’s built around a wine-soaked sex romp among Italian nobles — will fill the Regency-sized hole in your heart. That soapy new series, , is set in 1348, when the Black Plague raging in Florence motivates the nobility to decamp to a lavish hideaway along with their servants. Like , (which hits ) is a period piece about the upper class and their many kinks and foibles.
Sex and debauchery abound. “Think, like, , but back in the day,” Jessica Plummer, who plays noble Filomena, told Netflix’s Tudum site. “A lot of drama, a lot of sex, a lot of, yeah, craziness.
” The cast includes Saoirse-Monica Jackson (from ) playing a servant girl here, as well as Zosia Mamet ( ) playing a noblewoman and Tony Hale ( ) as the steward of the villa. creator Kathleen Jordan says she was partly inspired by a collection of stories — Giovanni Boccaccio’s — published in Italy in the mid-14th century and which tell the story of a group of nobles and servants who take shelter from the plague in the grand Villa Santa outside Florence. To pass the time, they take turns telling each other witty and explicit stories (“short little horny tales,” as Jordan describes them).
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