TV Shows like The Name of the Rose

“The Name of the Rose (2019) is a 2010s Italian period-drama that stages a contest between ecclesiastical authority and empirical inquiry. It frames a methodical murder-investigation inside a claustrophobic Benedictine abbey using terse, high-contrast cinematography to make doctrinal conflict legible as ritual. The series argues that the policing of knowledge functions as political control and therefore matters as a lens for historical-consciousness.”