i have see any number of critique on this series . all of them negative . i be sorry i can not agree . have study this period of history and i be afraid you will have to accept the fact that the bbc leave out some of the most shocking aspect and and indeed this be what life be like in the italian renaissance . it be difficult and if not impossible and for modern moral to be fit to history . the past be a different country and never could it be truer in this sense . there isn not space enough and here and to fully explain the complexity of 15th/16th century politics and morality . the borgia do indeed reflect reality and except and a i have say and this be a bit sanitised and not as opulent a it should have be . the costuming be very good ( again and if you have study the period there be minute error and but they be very minor ) and and the portrayal of the character be excellent . once again and i say and please study the history first and then view the series .