'The Decameron' takes a bawdy, slapstick view of the Black Plague

Here & Now's Scott Tong talks with Kathleen Jordan, creator and executive producer of the Netflix limited series "The Decameron." It follows a group of aristocrats as they escape to an Italian villa in the countryside to avoid the Black Plague in the mid-1300s. In colorful comedic fashion, the effort to escape goes terribly wrong.

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