You might be cordially invited to a wine-soaked intercourse romp set within the Italian countryside. The Decameron is a soapy darkish comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of sophistication struggles within the season of a pandemic. Within the 12 months 1348, the Black Loss of life strikes onerous within the metropolis of Florence, and a handful of nobles retreat with their servants to a grand villa to attend out the plague with a lavish vacation. However as social guidelines put on skinny, a scramble for survival ensues, dropped at life by a forged of characters each crafty and outrageous.
Created by Kathleen Jordan, who was very loosely impressed by the 14-century story assortment The Decameron, the eight-episode sequence is thru Jenji Kohan’s Tilted Productions. Kohan serves as an govt producer, alongside Jordan, director Michael Uppendahl, and Tilted’s Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann.