[pierrem15]

There were parts of that series that were really excellent, especially the beginning episodes. The scene where Mark Antony interrupts Caesar in a meeting and afterwards Caesar puts his arm around his shoulder and, with a smile, tells him to never do that again was a really good reminder of how much Roman politics was like the Godfather.

I was miffed because I thought a lot was cribbed from The First Man in Rome series of novels, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

[z3n]

I was miffed because I thought a lot was cribbed from The First Man in Rome series of novels, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

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Like most series on HBO and Showtime (such as game of thrones, etc) they got intentionally lurid with the sex and the graphic violence, which doesn’t particularly bother me personally, except that it cheapens the quality of the product, in my opinion. I did like following the characters. I found Titus Pullo to be more sympathetic than Lucios Vorenus, and I was rooting for Octavian (Augustus) even though he really was a whiny bookworm who needed to grow up (and he did)