Rome the best thing on telly

[Rev Hellfire]

I'm not sure if anyone here as seen this series, but if you haven't I strongly recommend that you do.
I’ve been watching series one pretty much back to back this weekend I can’t stress strongly enough how great this series is.
This has unseated battlestar in my view as the best thing on television. I’m now preparing to set into the last two episodes and have series two lined up to follow.

Watch it. You will not regret it.

• Information on the show
• Offical Rome Site

[Comrade]

I presume that's the big budget HBO/BBC collaboration? I enjoyed series 1 immensely, and I await series 2 eagerly. I want to see how the young cold blooded Octavius becomes the mighty (cold blooded) Augustus!

[Rev Hellfire]

It is the very same, I got series 1 as a dvd set before christmas and between on thing and another never got a chance to watch it.

Working through series 2 now

[Byzantine Bureaucracy]

Boo! Lame. The dictator knows my feelings on the matter, Pompeius Magnus was twice the man this series would have you believe Caesar was. BOO!!

[MoustachioedDictator]

I thought it was quite accurate in its portrayal of Pompei, but where the series takes off is the twilight of his career, his glory days were over. In the end, he's forced into combat by the impatient senate resulting in his destruction.

[Byzantine Bureaucracy]

Lame.

[MoustachioedDictator]

Lame.

Sleep it off rummy!

You have no idea how depressing it is it have my alarm ring in the morning, to get up for work, and realise that people back home are just coming in from a night out, and heading to bed. >:(

[Rev Hellfire]

If it makes you feel better I was up at 7am to get the kids sorted.

Must say I also felt it treated Pompeii rather well, certainly Caesar is the hero of the piece (if in indeed any of the nobility could be called that).

For a US show (I know there’s the BBC involved as well) I was quite surprised by the shows portray of the social mores of the time. Although I did read an interesting article in the BBC on Cleopatra and her portrayal in the public mind.

That’s no oil painting I see before me

[MoustachioedDictator]

Not really, I was up at 2:30am!! But then, I am at GMT+5:30 (stoopid India) ;D