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Ray Stevenson in "Rome" (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: Truth kills

On October 21, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

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.

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Kevin McKidd on "Rome" (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: You call this love?

On October 14, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

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.

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Lyndsey Marshal as Queen Cleopatra on "Rome" (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: And baby makes empire

On October 7, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

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.

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Vorenus and Pullo marooned on an island on 'Rome' (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: ‘This is where we die.’

On September 30, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

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.

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Indira Varma, Kevin McKidd, "Rome" (Photo: HBO)

‘Rome’: Love between strangers

On September 23, 2020February 24, 2025 By Mark PerigardIn Reviews

Pillow talk alters the course of an empire.

Just another gripping, unexpected hour from television’s greatest historical drama.

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