Rome?

[ithildin]

I don't get HBO, so I've never seen it (no, I've never seen Deadwood either), but I came across the DVDs of S1 on Amazon. Is it worth buying? How many seasons are there? Do I actually need another TV show to watch?

These and other burning questions await answers.

Comments

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Rome is great, wonderful, fantastic and any other superlatives you might care for.

The fact that they actually went into the characters' backgrounds as a means to explain their politics hooked me just as much as the fact that they showed Roman life from each end of the social structure. Sets and costuming were also amazing :)

I absolutely loved the first series, though I did hear that it was massacred edited for US tv because the UK episodes were too long. At least an hour was lost by the end of the first series, hence me waiting until the BBC show series 2 rather than downloading the HBO version.

[twichie.livejournal.com]

REALLY? I hadn't heard that! Does that mean longer episodes are somewhere just waiting for my squeeing and drooling? Um..I mean...appreciation?!

[sophiedb.livejournal.com]

Maybe on the DVD, or on some naughty site where one can d/l BBC eps :)