In Florence, Italy, in the year 1348, the plague has killed countless people, turning them into unsightly piles of flesh and boils. That sounds disgusting, but Netflix’s limited series The Decameron is anything but. Based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s 14th-century short story collection, the series follows a group of nobles and their servants as they shack up in a remote villa to wait for the pestilence to pass.
(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)
You’d be forgiven for thinking The Decameron is a heavy drama, but it’s actually a delightful comedy—and a very horny one at that. That’s fairly inevitable when a group of people, most of whom are single and ready to mingle, are stuck in one place with nowhere to go, and this group gets lustful awfully quick. Though everyone’s sexual interests and appetites vary, there’s one thing just about all of them can agree on: They desire Dioneo (Amar Chadha-Patel), an ultra-sexy doctor who is certain to be television’s sexiest new leading man.
