'The Prince'
This is it, the final episode of The Borgias, unless the fan campaign succeeds and the show is given a new lease in life. I meant to write this recap last September, but life got too busy and I lost my notes on this episode. On December, when I started blogging again, I became busy with a new show, Reign. This blog is a labour of love, I only recap the shows I feel like recapping and, amongst the shows featured on this blog, The Borgias is my favourite to recap. It feels good to be writing about it again. I do not consider it a near perfect show; I have nitpicked it often enough on this blog. Yet it is a very good show, one that deserves a far wider audience than it had during its run. It feels gratifying to be on Twitter and read tweets of people who are discovering the show for the first time, and loving it. I am sure the creative team behind The Borgias and the network have their reasons for not renewing the show for a fourth season, but I cannot help but feel a certain amount of sadness at the thought of stories left untold, of not seeing the show's phenomenal actors close their characters' journeys. On the upside, the show left on a high note with The Prince (the whole third season has been outstanding, really). If this truly is the end of The Borgias, it is not at all a bad way to go.