cees-34213
This series has stolen my heart! I even went to the set last summer still standing partly in Rome. This series is an inspiration for many other series like Spartacus which profits from the early stop of Rome. The last season supposed to be adleast 2 other seasons cutting into just 1 season during the high costs, and the back then upcoming serie game of thrones. This series is almost perfectly historically accurate, and beautiful written and put together. The details on the set and clothing of the characters are amazing. The early stop of this show has disappointed a huge loyal fan base which is still active on other social media platforms hoping for a film which should have been launched in 2011 but sadly never came. Which again disappointed the fan base. Never the les this series is great to wach. And hopefully HBO wil continues something similar which will make allot of people happy
joshfanguy
2018 has come around and this is still one of the greatest shows ever made. It has everything you could want from a production and then some. The actors are brilliant and really bring this show to life. It is an absolute shame that they didn't finish it with a final season...that is literally the only drawback to this series. If you haven't seen it, make it a priority.
Madamelejuge
I know my review is like 10 years after the show, but I've just bought the DVD, and I kinda wish I didn't!I won't talk about the unnecessary and pointless nudity, I got used to it with the most recent shows now. I've noticed that it was a low budget production from the start, you can see it from the clothes, the jewelry and of course the setting itself, the buildings were far bigger and more glamorous. On the other hand, there were a lot of actors that I liked, the directing was good and the story wasn't bad, so I kept watching it. It's not 100% historically accurate, but so are all the historical based shows nowadays, I watched it then as an ordinary TV show "inspired" by true events. However, we must respect a minimum of accuracy. So when I've reached episodes 7 and 8 of the first season that were in Egypt, I started laughing out loud for the following reasons: There was a mosque in the background (you can see it when Mumbay arrived Egypt in episode 7). So Egyptians believed in a religion that appeared 500 years later ??!!I've actually understood the language spoken by the Egyptians in the episodes (I'm Egyptian btw), it was modern Egyptian, which is mainly Arabic!!! The Arabs didn't invade Egypt until late 400 or early 500 AD, and it took us centuries to use Arabic in our language!! there are a lot of books on ancient Egyptian language used at that time, why not applying it like any other decent show or movie did??? Better yet, just make them speak English like the rest!of course the costumes are not right (Arabic style, really??), the desert was only used for cemeteries and not even to imprison a princess like Cleopatra. We were a rural society, and we still are. We hate the desert, and we still do. Egypt was a great and civilized nation at the time, why is it looking like it's comprised of a couple of nomad tribes? American (or English) stereotypes much, even in historical shows??Last, but not least, with all my due respect to the actress, she's ugly to be Cleopatra. And Cleopatra wasn't so juvenile like that, she was known to be mature comparing to her age.I'll continue watching the show (I wrote this review in the middle of ep. 8, couldn't resist!!) as I bought the DVD
robert-259-28954
Wow, what a trip! The first thing that hits you in the face is the absolute grittiness of the show. Rome wasn't the cleanest, or the safest, or the most compassionate place in the days of the Empire, and this was the first program I've ever seen that showed it in all it's bloody glory, warts and all. If you're looking for the Elizabeth Taylor Techicolor version, this it ain't. But "The play's the thing," and it certainly doesn't disappoint. It's dialogue and fantastic acting captivate you from the start, and never lets go. Each and every word is brilliant, each and every actor, superb. On a side note, their choice for Cleopatra is completely different from the usual "Hollywood star" stereotype, and that's what made the actor they chose, Lyndsey Marshal, such a standout. She was short, had boy-length hair, and looked nothing like Liz Taylor, but her energy and indisputable charisma carried the day. Watch 'Rome' for the entertainment, stay for the fireworks. Unforgettable.