In our latest “Rome” re-watch, two couples make it to the altar, but you’ll only count one happy person in the lot.
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‘Rome’: Truth kills
It’s like every column of the New York Times’ “Modern Love”:
You go to the Registrar of Slaves, take a number, wait your turn, present your documentation to a bored clerk, and walk out with the emancipation papers for the slave you want to marry.
‘Rome’: You call this love?
Fasten your seatbelts on this week’s “Rome” for a round-robin of betrayals and a plot twist so questionable, the characters practically break the fourth wall to complain to HBO.
But hey! There’s a shocking act of violence that gets everything back on track.
‘Rome’: And baby makes empire
There are a lot of adjectives used to describe HBO’s “Rome,” but one that rarely comes up is: funny.
And yet the latest episode in our “Rome” rewatch can best be thought of as a bedroom farce B.C.
‘Rome’: ‘This is where we die.’
One of our champions loses his head on this week’s “Rome,” and we must say goodbye – for the first, but not for the last time – to a series regular.
Oh, and the fate of the Roman Republic is decided, thousands die, blah, blah, just the usual from the most unusual HBO drama.
Mark Perigard 