The New Pope
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No, says Pope John Paul III.
No, he says again.
No, a third time, voice noticeably louder.
By now hes straight-up shouting.
The crowd has taken up the chant.
The guy has a way with words, or in this case, witha word.
But JPIII has more on his mind than murder, and the proper response to it this time.
More than any episode ofThe New Popeyet and this is saying something this one has sex on the brain.
That said, Brannox appears to take Stones words to heart.
This is acting like the resoundingyesthat accompanies his roar ofno.
I wanted you to believe your call wasnt important to me, he tells her.
And instead, you have been waiting for me to call, she replies.
My whole life, he says.
It would be flirtatious if he didnt seem so deadly serious.
He rejects the comparison almost out of hand as too glib.
Or is he mocking his own glibness with Stone?
Later, we discover that she is now pregnant.
She scoops up her son, Pius, and makes a break for it late one night.
And why wouldnt she?
He has come back!
shouts the head of his idolatrous cult.
Pius XIII is back!
Are the millipedes real animals?
Are they figments of the fevered imaginations of the viewers?
Are they a supernatural sign from God, or the Devil?
Is anything really as simple asyesorno?
