Rome - Season II - On HBO

I'm looking forward to it. I liked the first season a lot. Did the reviewers like the first season? I don't remember.

A review I just read said it was incredible. A tour de force and that it was ashame it was going away. Oh well, every critic has their opinion, its their job. I for one will definitely be watching it.

This is on reason why there are many reviews posted regularly in the "Hot Off The Press" sticky. To give you a wide range of opinions, not just that of your local critic.



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This is on reason why there are many reviews posted regularly in the "Hot Off The Press" sticky. To give you a wide range of opinions, not just that of your local critic.

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No offense Fred, but there are too many spoilers in some of those "Hot Off The Press" reviews.

It will be interesting to see how well Mix Pirkis's (Octavian) replacement does--I guess they had to age the character by quite a few years so a different actor plays him midway through the season. I thought the Octavian character/story was just about the most interesting thing on Rome, I hope it doesn't take a back seat to the whole Servilia/Atia storyline.

I didn't care for the first couple episodes of season 1,but I stuck with it and the show got progressively better.Great series.Glad it's back.

Yeah, this was one terrific series in S-1; had it all: brilliant production values (that $100 million is all up there on the screen), a first-rate cast, great writing, and a gritty, micro-view of ancient Rome that has never really been done before. Lots of sex, violence, and political intrigue as well. I find it hard to understand how it failed to "ignite" as one of HBO's better efforts. Seemed to kinda' fly under the radar. Like others here, I'm glad it's back.

I liked Rome, but I liked Deadwood better WAY better. I killed my sub to HBO months ago. I may re-sub when Big Love comes back.



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I didn't care for the first couple episodes of season 1,but I stuck with it and the show got progressively better.Great series.Glad it's back.

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Same here!

I'd like a little more sex and violence in it, but other than that pretty good.


THere hasn't been much hype about the upcoming season on tv.

Great new episode of Rome. A lot of chips are falling very quickly.


Awesome!

Tonight was the best episode of the whole series. Vorenus is going to be a very interesting character now. Of course the German slut from the kitchen is now my favorite character...



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LOL.. I know what you mean!

Just got done watching it. Wow, really incredible start to the season, actually seemed to be up a notch from where it left off.

As our British friends would say: "Bloody good episode."

. . . everything was well thought out as far as the visuals, but the actors sometimes fall into a cockney british accent . I know this is a co-production with the BBC, but come-on everything else is so good.