Borgia

After watching the interview with Tom Fontana in class i decided to go home and watch Borgia. I was especially excited to watch this show because i have always been a huge fan of film's or television series' that are based on historical events, especially those that take place a very long time ago so naturally Borgia was right up my alley. While i was watching the first episode i thought it got off to a slow start. One of the main characters i thought was acted very poorly in the beginning but then it started to pick up once the show moved on. During the interview, Tom Fontana mentioned his writing style is one in which he focuses on developing the characters first and foremost. He said the story tends to grow around them when he has decided what kind of people they are and what kind of actions they would take. I feel like this is very common for shows or films that are depicting historical events. Most of the time the plot is written in such a way that it makes you focus on the characters themselves instead of the situations there in. I am a huge fan of shows and films that are constructed in this way and Borgia is definitely one of them.