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Even if you haven’t yet watched last night’s premiere of HBO’s The Young Pope (starring Jude Law as the titular pope with a v. pious Diane Keaton as Sister Mary, the woman who raised him since he was 7), you probs know that people were really excited about it. If you even glanced at your social feeds in the last couple weeks since press around the show starting ramping up, you saw a Twitter feed bursting with hilarious anticipation for the chic young pope, and with good reason—since we’re essentially living in a Twilight Zone version of reality (ICYMI, *actual* monster Donald Trump gets sworn into the highest office in U.S. politics this week), peops have been v. v. amused by the idea of a tanned, cigarette-smoking, 47-year-old New Yorker named Lenny shaking up the Vatican. Here, the most entertaining tweets about The Young Pope premiere (and a few select gems from before the first episode dropped).
People are living for Pope Jude’s MAJOR chapeau moment
“Always stay gracious, best revenge is your paper” #TheYoungPope pic.twitter.com/UgkDfv7UoC
— Keiara Carr (@kkcarr18) January 16, 2017
“of course you don’t like my hat. not everyone ‘gets’ what vetements is doing. but i do. i’m very young.” pic.twitter.com/i0pdtYVzbF
— Alex Alvarez (@soalexgoes) January 4, 2017
But some think HBO bit Queen Bey’s style
#HBO recycling material #TheYoungPope #YoungPope pic.twitter.com/8L15A2UVVX
— Hallie Boston (@may0negg) January 16, 2017
And not everyone was feeling this lewk
Los caminos de Dios (y las referencias de Sorrentino) son inescrutables. #Coneheads #TheYoungPope #TheConePope pic.twitter.com/aVYaqnGsoa
— Jorge Naranjo (@nanafilms) January 6, 2017
Pope Jude showed his bare booty within the first five mins and folks couldn’t handle it
Me watching the opening of the Young Pope pic.twitter.com/1CFh3XCDZy
— CJ Biank (@cbiank) January 16, 2017
And TBH, we believed this *was* the pope’s actual entrance music at first
#TheYoungPope entrance music was LIT. pic.twitter.com/xHsab2UaTj
— Travon Free (@Travon) January 16, 2017
He’s not like a regular pope, he’s a cool pope!
“In West Pope-adelphia born & raised. At the Vatican was where I spent most of my days…” #TheYoungPope pic.twitter.com/YtEQL6dGx3
— Diane N. Sevenay (@Diane_7A) January 16, 2017
forgive me father for i have Sinned #TheYoungPope pic.twitter.com/x1TZCVWxsu
— ️ (@SPACEYSKEVIN) January 6, 2017
When you’re power hungry but gotta look cool #TheYoungPope pic.twitter.com/ViDPqksnQK
— ☆彡 (@EloiseFeMignon) January 6, 2017
Not everyone is totally sure what’s happening on the show…
The plot of the #TheYoungPope as best I can tell pic.twitter.com/VHAThdKKaW
— Stephen Okey (@StephenOkey) January 16, 2017
…or how the idea even made it out of the pitch meeting
— Horse Washington (@stodgeoff) January 5, 2017
GERGE: its a show about a young pope
HBO PRESIDENT: excuse me a YOUNG pope?
GERGE: everybodys doing old pope -we’ll do young pope pic.twitter.com/fe7AZC460v
— Seinfeld Current Day (@Seinfeld2000) January 16, 2017
But they’re def excited for this coming season (‘scuze the profanity)
I am so excited for this show pic.twitter.com/cHd4p2lfNj
— Pixelated Boat (@pixelatedboat) January 5, 2017
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