The deadliest pandemic in historical past has a saucy bunch of nobles in medieval Italy entangled in a countryside intercourse romp within the official trailer for Netflix’s The Decameron.
“I’ve been having sinful ideas,” Lou Gala, who performs Neifile, a God-fearing and extremely sexual younger visitor at a countryside villa in the course of the Black Loss of life pandemic, says at one level within the trailer for the sequence. (Assume Love Island, with individuals additionally infiltrating a villa for temptation, however happening within the hills of Tuscany in 1348.)
Social guidelines among the many the Aristocracy and their servants finally put on skinny throughout this soapy dramedy from creator/showrunner Kathleen Jordan and govt producer Jenji Kohan as a wine-soaked intercourse romp ensues. Folks then start to die however extra from an orgy of riches and wine that has everybody scrambling for survival.
Impressed by Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century literary story The Decameron, the Netflix eight-parter kicks off July 25. Boccaccio’s story earlier supplied the storyline for a 1971 movie by director Pier Paolo Pasolini, so the dramedy has a libidinous lineage.
“The pestilence has solid a wierd spell on us all,” one partygoer insists in the course of the trailer.
The Decameron additionally stars Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet, Tanya Reynolds, Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Karan Gill, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Douggie McMeekin and Jessica Plummer as Filomena, a spoiled oddball and the final surviving little one of her noble household.
Jordan govt produces with Orange Is the New Black creator Kohan, Blake McCormick and Tara Herrmann of Tilted Productions and Michael Uppendahl, who will direct 4 of the eight episodes.
