DA VINCI'S DEMONS: "The Hanged Man" S1E1 (review)

By Christopher Cerasi

Any series that starts off with a naked Hugh Bonneville (Lord Grantham on Downton Abbey) stark naked and pissing into a chamber pot, then demanding coddled eggs while slapping a male prostitute on the ass, has me immediately intrigued.

Too bad Bonneville’s Duke of Milan loses his life in the very next scene.

Still, there’s plenty more sex and titillation in Da Vinci’s Demons, which premiered this week on Starz. Created by David S. Goyer, the screenwriter behind Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight trilogy, as well as the upcoming Superman reboot, Man of Steel, Da Vinci’s Demons chronicles the famous artist and visionary genius who was ahead of his time and whose inventions changed history.


Like Game of Thrones and most genre shows on non-basic cable these days, there seems to be plenty of sex and tits-and-ass that viewers apparently demand to keep their attention.

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