Shame.
Shame.

It is so good. Watched it again recently. Everything after it has been a pale comparison.

Friends. Romans. Citizens.
I'd say we take this true roman bread and stick it up brutus arse

>>212012033
that fellow has a gallic look about him

Season 2 sucked anyway, idk wtf they were thinking by casting Mark Zuckerberg as Augustus

Rome season 1 however is the best season of tv ever produced

S2 was already a step down and it was completely carried by Antony who dies SPOILER ALERT

I guess people say it was supposed to go all the way to Jesus somehow but I don't understand how that would work. Just watch or better yet read I, Claudius.

second season doesn't get enough hate for how much of a drop it is and it's not only due to budgeting issues

Since someone already mentioned I Claudius I will recommend this wonderful docudrama from the BBC. I loved Michael sheen as Nero

for a good Solonius?

>>212012147
As a direct result of the cancellation since they had to jam a bunch of seasons into one with S2.
Currently rewatching and S1 was absolute kino. Somewhat dreading starting S2

>>212012321
Claudius is unwatchable for me, someone took a damaged VHS camera and went around a marble bathroom filming Brian Blessed perform his schtick. And it's less fun than it sounds.

>>212012147
After Caesar's death they should've immediately followed the Williams's Augustus book (which I heartily recommend to anyone reading this) but yeah with that crew it would've been as shit as S2 was. They introduced like 5 new actors besides Older Augustus and they were all abominably crap.

I PISS ON /TV/

>>212012336
Season 1 (and prequel season) of Spartacus are really good.

Even though his performance is not at all what I pictured when I read the book Augustus is my favorite part of the I, Claudius TV adaptation

>>212011932 (OP)
2000s was like the final breath of goodness before media all fell apart.

>>212012494
Spartacus is good but way too fucking gay.

>>212012610
There was a lot of faggotry back then

>>212012610
it has more tits and ass from beautiful women then any show before or since so not sure what you mean

>>212012669
In a way early 2000s TV was gayer than it is today because they all thought they were being edgy and trendsetting by including a gay character so every show needed at least one gay subplot.

>>212012961
unlike today when they need every show to be main gay plot? what a stupid thing to say

>>212013032
I did say in a way. If you were to literally compare the numbers modern TV is probably gayer but they put more emphasis on it back then.
Also you shouldn't confuse the particularly bad cases for all TV

>>212012961
I meant Ancient Rome lol

>>212013291
Shame.
Shame on the house of Anon.

>>212013081
Spartacus is not the example you should've brought up then, today it is essential that a major plotline involve faggots, then it was a side thing that wasn't really important at all.
>early 2000s TV was gayer than it is today
this is categorically false you fucking faggot

>>212013336
Maybe, maybe not. It was still extremely gay.

>>212011932 (OP)
>don't film battle scenes to save budget
>gets cancelled early anyway

>>212013370
its nowhere near current year levels and you are a liar to even suggest otherwise

>>212012478
Spartacus mogs all the gladiator scenes. House of Ashur soon!

>>212011932 (OP)
Watched it recently, it was so entertaining that I would binge half a season a day. Why was it so entertaining? Not a single moment of slogging through filler dialogue or scenes where some politically correct character grandstands and pseudo breaks the fourth wall. Did we take it for granted? It has only been downhill from this.

>>212013415
Battle scenes are shit and pointless, you just have to know the outcome. See: every Shakespeare play with a battle.

>>212013416
Not every show is Velma, faggot.
Just acknowledge that TV faggotry goes back a long way and be done with it.

>>212012478
13

>>212013566
I don't know what that is, just acknowledge shit spews from mouth like cum from ass, you faggot

>>212013511
I feel your pain, but you must stop inflicting it on yourself. You give them your strength. They feed off how much we hate them. Well, they will feed off it until they finally run out of money. Gavin Newsom just gave them a billion taxpayer dollars to help keep them afloat.

>>212011932 (OP)
It was cringe on two occasions:
>old woman following Pullo and yelling "Murderer!"
and:
>Octavia sciccoring the old woman
It deserved to be canceled for those cringe alone.

>>212013658
The thing that bothers me is that they don't really care about money and sure as hell aren't in it for making billions. They know Hollywood and the entertainment industry in general are instruments of the state and the state will never let them go under.

>>212013811
Nah pullo being followed was kino and surreal/shakespearean

>>212013913
We may have to use the legal system to destroy Hollywood in the end. Cultural/spiritual/sexual fraud on the public, something.

>>212013629
>shit spews from mouth like cum from ass,
Just like early 2000s TV

>>212011932 (OP)
It's a mid and degenerate series, I am halfway through season 1 and I'm not sure I should keep watching it for fear of more degeneracy.
The characters and costumes are good though, and that's it's only redeemable quality. It's clear anti Roman propaganda.

>>212014195
I'm sorry ancient peoples didn't actually live up to idealized fanfictions created over the centuries.

>>212014127
you speak as a sardinian an open cunt for all to see, not man with cock.

>>212014195
>degenerate
I can just picture you

>>212011932 (OP)
There's gotta be a way to make Rome-kino without it costing a gorillion dollars. I'd take a sitcom at this point.

>>212014195
Picrel might appeal better to your sensibilities.

>>212014492
Disney does it in their CGI pod.
Be careful what you ask for.

>>212014512
I couldn’t even make it to the end of the first episode, incredibly lame girl-power woke modern shit in every sense of the word

>>212012321
I think I saw this one youtube once. Did it get taken down there recently or something?

>>212014939
I made it to the end, only because I had latent "rome" fever from watching Rome. Marvelization really is real.

>>212012366
weakest part of s2 is how rushed it is. There’s good moments

>>212015035
Idk, but there’s lots of torrents for it. Shoot it into pirate bay, it’s there

>>212015768
I guess.
I wish Michael Sheen got more work in general to be honest. Loved him in Good Omens.

>>212012336

>>212015831
Yeah he’s one of my favorite actors for sure

As long as we’re here I’m gonna drop one final recc, this is an audio drama of the highest quality. Michael Sheen as Caligula is my favourite episode, they take the line that all the shit written about Caligula (by the senatorial class) is basically propaganda, there’s a great scene where Caligula says one of his infamous lines and there’s an awkward silence and he says “I was just kidding lol.” Really does make you think about ancient history and how we just have to take the whole thing on faith

>>212015948
Shit I meant David Tennant as Caligula. There’s also Tom Hiddleston as Romulus Augustus the final final emperor. Anyway I love the Mike Walker audio dramas, he’s the best (there’s also an Alexander one by David wade)

everyone ITT should read Claudius the God at some point, its cool.

>>212015035
it's on archive org

>The mighty Anonius. TAKEN LIKE A WOMAN!

>>212017718
>has poop on his dick
>thinks he won

>>212014195
>vgh, how can they portray my noble romanos like that

>>212012424
>someone took a damaged VHS camera and went around a marble bathroom filming Brian Blessed perform his schtick. And it's less fun than it sounds.

The weird thing is that I agree with you 100% but youre also 110% dead wrong. First of all, Brian Blessed dies early. And the following intrigues are extremely well acted and written in a very intrusively engaging way, to the point where I can completely ignore the zero-budget production. John Hurt as Caligula should be hammy and dumb but hes just so creepy. I dont really care much about the blocking and directing going on but just the various conversations between the many characters are enough to just watch. And I like that so much happens between episodes and off camera that you actually have to think and listen when watching to understand. Its not a whole package show but the parts it does well it does better than any other show, so yeah.
But a scene like this
https://youtu.be/Da6cbuAfnbA?t=48
is simply just worth sitting through an entire episode

>read up on the actual story of ceasar's assassination
>the scheming, improvization, betrayal and manipulations
The show butchered the story and made his death far less interesting that it should have been.

>>212018389
It's girl poop, so it's ok

>>212011932 (OP)
test

Recently rewatched and the second season is so goddamn rushed starting like episode 4 or something.

>>212023745
Test falls from face like shit from ass

what was his problem?

>>212025411
>Cato drew his sword from its sheath and stabbed himself below the breast. His thrust, however, was somewhat feeble... [and] he did not at once dispatch himself... His servants heard the noise and cried out, and his son at once ran in, together with his friends... [A] physician went to him and tried to replace his bowels, which remained uninjured, and to sew up the wound. Accordingly, when Cato recovered and became aware of this, he pushed the physician away, tore his bowels with his hands, rent the wound still more, and so died.
He was bad at Sudoku

>>212013658
M-More speeches of the dragon queen? In full body, maybe?

Pretty bad show to be honest despite some excellent actors.
Over reliance on ridiculous sex/violence/profanity. And it was shot really poorly, especially the framing, and the whole thing looked far too dark.

The second season was atrocious, especially that ending. By that last episode they had clearly given up.

Everything old is new again

>>212011932 (OP)
Didn't it die so that Game of Thrones could be made?

>>212015990
If we're posting lesser known Rome drama then I remember the 2002 Julius Caesar miniseries being alright, with Richard Harris as Sulla and Christopher Walken as Cato the Younger

>>212026910
Ancient Rome was one of the most licentious societies ever to exist, and the show depicts a violent time in its history.
People who complain about sex, violence and profanity are just immature faggots.

>>212027877
No. It must be sanitized and pure so children can watch it during sunday school.

>>212026910
>Over reliance on ridiculous sex/violence/profanity
That’s just a HBO thing

>>212011932 (OP)
>Citizens of /tv/

>>212012038
Riding with Marcus and Caesar would have been something, imagine how glorious it was even without the bullshit romanticism and the months of shitty dark times they glance over
All that bullshit would have been worth it had you survived until Octavian was undisputed ruler of Rome

>>212012038
He should've won

>>212033614

>>212027847
Neat