Netflix is turning a medieval story collection that was scandalous and banned for a long time into a series. If you like it even kinkier than Bridgerton, you only have to wait another week
Remakes, reboots and adaptations are still the be-all and end-all of today’s entertainment industry. Few things turn producers on as much as titles that audiences are already familiar with. This is unlikely to be the case with the Netflix adaptation of The Decameron, as everyone who once found Giovanni Boccaccio’s banned original * scandalous has been dead for over 600 years.
As a filthy Bridgerton, the Netflix series could still attract a lot of attention when it arrives on the streaming market leader next week.
Watch the full trailer for The Decameron here:
The Decameron goes online on Netflix in a week – and that’s what it’s all about
Italy in the Middle Ages: As the bubonic plague sweeps through Europe, several nobles and their servants head to a country estate to ride out the pandemic. It’s easy to get bored, which we can well imagine after the corona isolation. But the blue bloods have a remedy for this: They take it in turns to tell each other stories every day – with a salacious twist. So much for the literary original, which has been repeatedly banned and censored over 671 years.
The raunchy Netflix comedy goes one step further: during their stay, the high-born and dragged along country house visitors (including stars such as Zosia Mamet, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Tanya Reynolds, Tony Hale, Jessica Plummer, …) get closer and even have to fight for their survival in the end.
(The Decameron)
Kathleen Jordan, who previously worked on Teenage Bounty Hunters, is responsible for the whole thing.
