The Borgias: Season 3

2013 · 10 episodes · ★ 6.7

What Season 3 of The Borgias

Alexander VI survives Cardinal Giuliano della Rovere's assassination attempt, because his daughter Lucrezia knows how to treat catarella poisoning. Alexander's war with the Sforza family continues and escalates. Alexander now plots to turn the Papacy into an explicitly hereditary office.

10episodes

Apr 14, 2013premiered

Jun 16, 2013latest episode

8.4 hrtotal runtime

Season 3 Episodes

3x01 The Face of Death
Apr 14, 2013 · 52 min · ★ 8.2
Pope Alexander fights for his life; the cardinals fight for control of the papacy; Cesare and Micheletto track the assassin; Della Rovere prepares to make his move.
Directing: Kari Skogland · Writer: Guy Burt · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Colm Feore, Peter Sullivan, Vernon Dobtcheff
3x02 The Purge
Apr 21, 2013 · 50 min · ★ 6.6
Alexander tasks Cardinal Sforza with purging the College of Cardinals, old Roman families conspire against the Pope, and Lucrezia tries to seduce Cesare.
Directing: Kari Skogland · Writer: Neil Jordan · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Vernon Dobtcheff, Lotte Verbeek
3x03 Siblings
Apr 28, 2013 · 51 min · ★ 6.5
The King of Naples refuses to accept Lucrzia's child as part of the marriage agreement and pointedly invites Caterins Sforza and other Borgia enemies to the wedding.
Writing: Guy Burt · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Vernon Dobtcheff, Prometheus Aleifer
3x04 The Banquet of Chestnuts
May 5, 2013 · 51 min · ★ 6.3
Cardinal Farnese exposes the embezzlement of Cardinal Versucci while the King of Naples insists the consummation of Lucrezia's marriage to his cousin be witnessed.
Writing: Guy Burt · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Vernon Dobtcheff, Lotte Verbeek
3x05 The Wolf and the Lamb
May 12, 2013 · 50 min · ★ 7.5
Lucrezia and Micheletto plot the death of King Ferdinand when he refuses her her baby as Cesare's promise of an annulment for Louis X!. gain him a wife and army.
Directing: Kari Skogland · Writer: Neil Jordan · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Prometheus Aleifer, Pilou Asbæk
3x06 Relics
May 19, 2013 · 48 min · ★ 6.3
Cesare unites the sons of the five Romagna families with his own army against Forli, and the Pope negotiates for a with Constantinople Jews for a holy relic.
Directing: Kari Skogland · Writer: Guy Burt · Starring: Peter Sullivan, Prometheus Aleifer, Pilou Asbæk, Tom Keller
3x07 Lucrezia's Gambit
May 26, 2013 · 48 min · ★ 6.2
After the French king occupies a deserted Milan, he tasks Cesare with killing Ludivico, and Lucretia becomes involved in Neapolitan palace intrigue.
Writer: Neil Jordan · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Lotte Verbeek, Luke Allen-Gale
3x08 Tears of Blood
Jun 2, 2013 · 53 min · ★ 6.3
Micheleto learns his kept lover is a Sforza informant, Caterina Sforza mounts the Shroud of Turin as a rival holy relic, and Alfonso puts Lucrezia under house arrest.
Writer: Neil Jordan · Starring: Peter Sullivan, Luke Allen-Gale, András Ábel, Pál Makrai
3x09 The Gunpowder Plot
Jun 9, 2013 · 46 min · ★ 7.2
Lucrezia escapes with Alfonso and her baby from Naples while the Pope corners the market in sulfur, restricting others from manufacturing gunpowder.
Directing: Neil Jordan · Writing: Neil Jordan · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Luke Allen-Gale, Prometheus Aleifer, Pilou Asbæk
3x10 The Prince Season Finale
Jun 16, 2013 · 56 min · ★ 6.4
Micheletto returns to Cesare briefly to help him destroy the walls of Forli and capture Caterina Sforza and later recruit her assassin Rufio.
Directing: Neil Jordan · Writer: Neil Jordan · Starring: Joanne Whalley, Peter Sullivan, Prometheus Aleifer, Pilou Asbæk