The tales of Boccaccio’s Decameron in a modern guise, reinterpreted through new communication media such as podcasts.

Boccaccio’s 14th-century book The Decameron gets a contemporary update in Netflix’s miniseries of the same name. The raunchy Bubonic Plague-era comedy sees an eclectic group take refuge from the ...

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 ...

No matter how bad your summer vacations have been, they could in no way compare to the sheer horror of the villa getaway in “The Decameron,” one that is as filled with black comedy as it is with the ...

The influential thinker and writer Douglas Rushkoff was once summoned to an audience with five Silicon Valley billionaires. As he recounts in Survival of the Richest, their concern was impending ...

The Decameron is a dark new comedy series on Netflix that fans have not been able to get enough of, whether it be down to its chaotic plot or star-studded plot. The series, which is loosely inspired ...

The Decameron has all the makings of a great sleeper hit: unexpected source material, abundant quirky humor, and sneakily moving performances. Netflix’s limited series also boasts the bone structure ...

Quickly gathering millions of viewers is Netflix’s playful dramedy, The Decameron. We follow a bunch of Florentine nobles who, amidst the raging Black Death, flee to a majestic countryside villa on ...

Netflix’s The Decameron is here, eight episodes of 14th century comedy drama, featuring a group of misfits hiding in a villa to dodge the plague. But where does its title come from? What does ...

It seems that the time has not yet come to relive the Covid-19 pandemic in comedy mode: If you're going to confine a cross-section of an entire society to the countryside to exacerbate conflicts and ...