The 2011-2013 Showtime Renaissance-era dramatic series The Borgias is the focus of this August 2022 piece for Paste Magazine.
I discuss a bit about the actual family this series portrays, an analysis of a central character that is eliminated towards the end of its second season, and how, after said character was gone, the show could not hold my interest.
https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/showtime/the-borgias-tv-show-juan/