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Rome (TV Series)

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Rome

2005

John Milius (Creator), William J. MacDonald (Creator) ...

Kevin McKidd, Ray Stevenson, Polly Walker, James Purefoy ...

7.8

33,549

TV Series. Drama TV Series (2005-2007). 2 Seasons. 22 Episodes. The year is 52 B.C. Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Maureen Ryan Chicago Tribune	"What’s most enjoyable about it is how deftly it mixes soap opera with senatorial debates"	POS
United States	Robert Lloyd Los Angeles Times	"'Rome' is smart, dirty fun"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"There's a danger that visitors to 'Rome' may contract a mild case of Naughty Classy Cable Fatigue"	POS
United States	Tom Shales The Washington Post	"The production is nothing if not rich (...) populated with rivetingly complex characters and yet disappointingly low on spectacle"	POS
United States	Robert Bianco USA Today	"With each episode, the show seems to move further from real life and the real Rome and off into some sex-crazed, soap-opera fantasy version of a place that has never (...) existed before or since. Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Alessandra Stanley The New York Times	"'Rome' is engaging even if it isn’t a swords-and-sandals version of 'The Sopranos', as HBO had hoped"	NEU
United States	Matt Roush TV Guide	"It's like 'Deadwood' in togas, a violent and bawdy tapestry of a vanished civilization"	NEU

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