Rome

spank_inferno

BBC are most of the way through season 2 of this series.

Just wondering what people think of it?
Personaly I think its great, plots are pretty juicy & some of the acting is great (particularly the woman playing 'Atia')
Shame it only lasted 2 seasons.

cheers

valor

one of my fav shows ever

vallo

(This is only on BBC afaik, so I'm not putting in any spoiler warnings)

I thought the 1st series was superb - a decent balance between the historically accurate bits (well, accurate as far as I know - I'm sure many would disagree) and the fictional characters who had an interesting storyline and gave insights into the way Roman citizens behaved (e.g. their appalling attitude to slaves).

Season 2 is a big disappointment to me - the factual part is plodding along nicely and is as good as ever, but the other storyline is crap. It's like the whole production is cheaper and more like a TV mini-series of a jackie collins novel. Some of the "high-drama" is just plain silly .. like the jewish guy planning the Herod assassination, having been suddenly driven to extremist judaism by Atia's cruelty or something. Who really cares that this background character has suddenly killed his brother?

I still watch it, but I don't know if I'd be bothered enough to tape it if I was going to be out.

banquo

I really enjoyed the 1st series, just acquiring the second season now. While not totally factually accurate it was excellent television imo. It did a pretty good job of portraying how Roman politics works, which isn't so easy.