In our latest “Rome” re-watch, two couples make it to the altar, but you’ll only count one happy person in the lot.

In our latest “Rome” re-watch, two couples make it to the altar, but you’ll only count one happy person in the lot.
In this week’s especially dark “Rome” re-watch, Atia just wants some lunch, Servilia would like to pray in peace, Octavian can’t understand why no one recognizes him, and Timon picks the worst moment to demand a new job description.
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.
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.
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.