The Black Death creates chaos in exclusive trailer for “The Decameron”

Tony Hale, Zosia Mamet, Amar Chadha-Patel, and more star in the new Netflix show.

When the Black Death strikes the city of Florence in 1348, all bets are off — at least for a handful of nobles who retreat to a grand villa to wait out the plague. What ensues can only be described as wine-soaked chaos.

The Decameron is a "soapy dark comedy that examines the all-too-timely theme of class struggles in the season of a pandemic," according to its official synopsis. The series, which stars Amar Chadha-Patel, Leila Farzad, Lou Gala, Karan Gill, Tony Hale, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Zosia Mamet, Douggie McMeekin, Jessica Plummer, and Tanya Reynolds, comes from creator Kathleen Jordan. Jordan was loosely inspired by the 14th-century story collection by the same name.

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"When the COVID-19 pandemic happened, I wanted to figure out how to write about it and the things I was noticing in our culture with a little bit of ironic distance," Jordan says. "It occurred to me that the plague is a good breeding ground for some of those thematic conversations."

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Jordan then read The Decameron and decided that a straight adaptation of the stories wasn't a good fit for television. However, she thought "the idea of a group of wealthy people who think that they can escape a pandemic" was a great foundation for a series.

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Entertainment Weekly has the exclusive first trailer for the new Netflix show, which also names Jenji Kohan as an executive producer. Watch the trailer above.

The Decameron premieres Thursday, July 25, on Netflix.

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