Still the greatest TV intro ever.

We should have had the full 5 seasons instead of Game of Thrones

Rest in peace Ray Stevenson 🙏

It's a box set I return to frequently. The best 'Rome' drama I've seen. The principal characters/actors are peerless. Marc Antony/James Purefoy is simply superb...I like to think he has Antony to a tee. And Ciaran Hinds, well, the best Caesar of all? Polly Walker...brilliant.

Vale! Ray Stevenson

looks great. never heard of it but I lived without TV for years.

Keep meaning to rewatch that. The intro always struck me as showing how very different these pagan Romans were to us, rather than how much they’re usually painted as being our precursors…

One of the best shows in TV history

One season wonder like True Detective, Mindhundter, murdered the show in S2 and then quit altogether.

The intro graffiti also obliquely follows Rome's history/ mythos: Rom & Rem, rape of Sabine women, geese saving Capitoline etc. Entirely coincidentally, I just published this

My fav