The Decameron season 1, episode 1
Summary Giovanni Boccaccio's The Decameron is one of the most iconic Italian works of the 14th century, comprised of over 100 short stories that range in genre and inspired not only adaptations, but also influenced other authors of the time, including Chaucer and William Shakespeare.
Given the show is an eight-episode miniseries, though, The Decameron ultimately feels like it takes too long to progress these arcs. With an hour-long episodic format, building towards major character moments wouldn't seem like an issue, even one that has as big of an ensemble cast as this, but the Netflix series is more invested in wanting to put these characters in comedic situations and conflicting love stories than offering them any kind of meaningful development.
While there are certainly occasional chuckles to be had from some of the characters' antics, particularly the pointed banter between Saoirse-Monica Jackson's Misia and Tony Hale's Sirisco, The Decameron's lack of guffaw-inducing moments proves largely disappointing. This is especially true because of each episode's runtime, leaving us to wonder when the story will actually go somewhere in lieu of predictable pitfalls and familiar character tropes.
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