In Florence, Italy in the year 1348, the pestilence has run amok killing countless people, leaving them unsightly piles of flesh and boils. Sure, that sounds disgusting, but Netflix’s limited series The Decameron, is anything but. Based on Giovanni Boccaccio’s short story collection, the series follows a group of nobility and their servants as they shack up in a remote villa and wait out the plague ravaging the country.

(Warning: Spoilers ahead.)

While you’d be forgiven thinking The Decameron is a heavy drama, it’s instead a delightful comedy—and a very horny one at that. That’s fairly inevitable when a group of people, most of whom are single and ready to mingle, are stuck in one place with nowhere to go, and this group gets lustful awfully quick. Though everyone’s sexual interests and appetites vary, there’s one thing just about all of them can agree on: They desire Dioneo (Amar Chadha-Patel), an ultra-sexy doctor who is certain to be television’s sexiest new leading man.

When we first see Dioneo, you’re immediately struck by his long, flowing black hair—not dissimilar to a lion's mane—resting on his broad shoulders. He’s busy tending to the rather helpless Tindaro (Douggie McMeekin), who can’t even get his tunic on right. Dioneo is forced to help him, as while being a doctor is a respectable career, it’s nothing compared to being a member of the nobility and the ruling classes. It’s hard to find him too appealing at........

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