It's a tale of wine-soaked chaos amid bubonic plague. Netflix's The Decameron turns a real-life historical tragedy into a boisterous comedy. The series from Kathleen Jordan centers on turmoil in ...

Before there were single-location concept shows or Zoom table reads, there was the original pandemic-adjacent entertainment: Bocaccio’s “The Decameron,” the 14th-century anthology framed around a ...

A features writer at Collider, Shreejit hails from a country known for its unabashed love for its cinema. During his postgrad in Journalism, Shreejit discovered his love for film analysis through his ...

A loose Netflix adaptation turns Boccaccio’s story cycle into a gleeful satire of class war in plague times. By James Poniewozik TV audiences have an appetite for a good class-conscious satire of rich ...

Bandits! Sword fights! Buboes! Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet and co have a whale of a time in this plague-riddled comedy-drama set in 14th-century Italy Put down your Boccaccio, which I know you ...

Carly Lane is an Atlanta-based writer and critic who has been with Collider in some form or fashion since 2021. She considers herself a television nerd, diehard romance/sci-fi/fantasy reader, and ...