Unlike the multi-season American attempts that followed, this version was conceived as a finite, two-part epic (often shown as two 90-minute episodes or one 180-minute television film).

Because this was a pan-European production, the casting drew from French, Italian, and Spanish talent, offering a vastly different flavor than the Anglo-American casts of later adaptations.

) is a lush historical drama that explores the family's rise and fall during the Italian Renaissance. Key features of this production include: Production Scope

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It offers something the later series do not: a conclusion. You watch the entire bloody rise and fall of the family in one sitting. It does not romanticize Cesare, nor does it whore out Lucrezia’s innocence. It presents the Borgias as a family of predators whose luck eventually ran out.