Rome
Real historyReal historical events and figures woven into the story.This show: 10/10Political intriguePower struggles inside governments and institutions.This show: 9/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 9/10War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 8/10Graphic violenceExplicit, unflinching violence.This show: 8/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 8/10Sexually explicitFrank sexual content.This show: 7/10Big-budget spectacleBlockbuster-scale production values.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Kevin McKiddRay StevensonPolly WalkerKerry CondonJames PurefoyIan McNeice
Written by
Bruno HellerWilliam J. MacDonaldJohn Milius
Starring
Kevin McKiddRay StevensonPolly WalkerKerry CondonJames PurefoyIan McNeice
Written by
Bruno HellerWilliam J. MacDonaldJohn Milius
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Rome Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| S1 | 8.3 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.3 | 8.9 | 9.2 | |
| S2 | 8.5 | 8.7 | 8.4 | 8.1 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 8.1 | 8.6 | 8.6 | 9.0 |
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About
"History's marble facade stripped down to mud and blood"
Rome follows two ordinary Roman soldiers, Titus Pullo and Lucius Vorenus, whose lives keep colliding with history's biggest names as Julius Caesar's ambition tears the Republic apart. It's lush, brutal, and unusually tactile: mud, blood, sex, and politics rendered with real grime instead of marble-statue polish. The pace is deliberate, letting palace intrigue and street-level survival breathe side by side. What carries it is the odd-couple friendship at its center and a sense that empire is built by desperate, flawed people, not just emperors.
Watch it for
the unlikely friendship between two soldiers caught in history's machinery.
Maybe skip if
you want a tidy, fast-moving plot rather than dense political maneuvering.
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Season 12005
8.338K1210h 15m
Season one begins in 52 B.C. as Gaius Julius Caesar completes his quest of Gaul after eight years of war and prepares to return with his army to Rome. But while Caesar's self-interested niece Atia and long-lost paramour Servilia anxiously await his return, the ruling patricians despair that Caesar's homecoming will disrupt the status quo. As Caesar's legions move closer to Rome, allegiances are put to the test for both soldiers and civilians — and the escalating tensions climax with a full-scale conflict destined to change history.
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Season 22007
8.526K109h 30m
Season two's storyline picks up right where season one left off: with the 44 B.C. assassination of Gaius Julius Caesar and the near-simultaneous death of Niobe, wife of Caesar's faithful bodyguard Lucius Vorenus. Diverted from his post after learning that Lucius, his assumed grandson, was in fact Niobe's illegitimate son, Vorenus now descends into near-madness over his failure to protect Caesar, his role in his spouse's death, and the rumored murder of his estranged daughters.
Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Kevin McKidd Lucius Vorenus
Ray Stevenson Titus Pullo
Polly Walker Atia of the Julii
Kerry Condon Octavia of the Julii
James Purefoy Mark Antony
Ian McNeice Newsreader
Coral Amiga Vorena the Elder
Lindsay Duncan Servilia of the Junii
Lidia Biondi Merula
Tobias Menzies Marcus Junius Brutus
Crew
Bruno Heller
William J. MacDonald
John Milius
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