Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Illustration by Erin O’Flynn/The Daily Beast/Netflix and Getty Images When it comes to satire, a handful of topics are ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I was inspired by the concept of examining the slice of life moment of a pandemic,” The Decameron showrunner Kathleen Jordan says ...

Saoirse-Monica Jackson as Misia and Zosia Mamet as Pampinea in "The Decameron." (Courtesy of Giulia Parmigiani/Netflix) Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Kathleen Jordan, creator and executive ...

Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron (1353) is a classic plague book. It follows ten noble people quarantining together in a beautiful villa in the Italian countryside. They have fled Florence where in ...

Comedies, like horror stories, have two tasks: to encourage an immediate emotional response from their audiences and not overstay their welcome. Laughing and screaming take a lot out of a person, so ...

There’s really no excuse for “The Decameron,” the new eight-part Netflix series. There were a number of ways it could have been done right, but it was done wrong. Terribly, ridiculously and ...

Scrambling for pandemic-related advice, pundits and podcasters have turned to Giovanni Boccaccio’s fictional masterpiece, “The Decameron.” Written in the 14th century at the height of the Black Death, ...

Lou Gala, Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet and Saoirse-Monica Jackson party like it’s 14th-century Florence, and the Black Death is everywhere in the look at the soapy dramedy. By Etan Vlessing Canada Bureau ...

This series loosely inspired by the Boccaccio classic revolves around a group of nobles and servants waiting out the Black Plague in 14th-century Tuscany. By Angie Han Television Critic As Netflix’s ...

Around the year 1350, with Europe in the throes of a bubonic plague epidemic, a book of stories called “The Decameron” captured something of what it was like in Florence, Italy: the devastation, the ...