no one expects the Roman Inquisition!

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My Age of Reformation professor described inquisitions as "the two half hours of Law & Order rolled into one." For whatever reason, ever since then I have been jonesing for a TV crime drama about an inquisition. Which, you know, will never happen because of everything the inquisition is associated with (heresy, execution, repression, authority, etc.) and actually did (again with the heresy and the torture and the execution), I'm just...unreasonably fascinated with the idea. Hey, it could be the Roman Inquisition! Which did less executing than the Spanish Inquisition, and also was the starting point for a few popes, who then may or may not have blackmailed their way to the Throne of St. Peter. (When you are the head of an inquisition which operates in secret, you know things. Even about your fellow cardinals. Especially about your fellow cardinals!)

(I'm sorry. Dirty papal politics will never not be funny.)

Law & Order: Medieval Crimes Unit?

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Too bad I'm pretty sure the BBC never strays over here! Alas.