Team TV Guide calls to the podium one of the most excellent
dramas to come out of HBO in the last few years,
Rome.
The setting was lush & realistic, the costumes glorious in their authenticity & the acting superb - in many ways, it reminded me of the Sopranos, just a few centuries before Tony Soprano was running things in Jersey. You can argue that the series was not as historically accurate as it could have been, it did feel authentic tho and according to producers that was their main goal.
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