Season 1
8 episodes · 2012
1Cantos 1-3: Where Are You Going, Traveler?
Dante, bewildered in sin, meets Virgil, sent to him by Beatrice. Together, they enter the terrible gates of Hell.
2Cantos 4-8: Loving Good Things in an Evil Way
Dante and Virgil, after meeting the virtuous pagans in Limbo, the rim of Hell, meet the adulterers, gluttons, avaricious, wrathful, and slothful.
3Cantos 9-12: Intellectual Terror
Virgil and Dante enter the first ring of the City of Dis, which includes the materialist heretics, who reveal to us the terrible constriction of the intellect entailed by sin.
4Cantos 13-17: A World of Violence
Dante and Virgil encounter the violent against self, God, Nature, and human industry. These are not simply murderers; they are suicides, blasphemers, sodomites, and usurers.
5Cantos 18-22: Liars and All Such Filth
Dante and Virgil travel through the "pouches of evil" on the eighth circle of Hell where they meet various practitioners of fraud, including seducers, simonists, and grafters.
6Cantos 23-27: The Fire of a Perverted Mind
As they continue around the Malebolge, Dante and Virgil journey past those who used their intellects to deceive: hypocrites, thieves, and evil counselors.
7Cantos 28-31: Destroying the Community of Man
In the ninth pouch, Virgil and Dante find the schismatics, who are punished by division in their bodies. In the final pouch, they meet the counterfeiters who are punished by disease.
8Cantos 32-34: When Hell Freezes Overfinale
Dante and Virgil come to the very last circle of Hell, and encounter the impotence of evil in the frozen pit where the Father of Lies is trapped in ice.