Rome is back on BBC2, in fact its halfway through season 2 and what a rip roaring series its been! Full of intrigue, divided loyalties, conflicts, subversion and pure decadence.......oh and did I mention the gratuitous sex and violence?
Class acting from the likes of Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson as Vorenus and Pullo as their lives become ever more complicated and manipulated by Romes powers that be. Atia of the Julii played by Polly Walker remains as seductive and ruthless as ever and my personal favourite is Mark Antony played by James Purefoy, an arrogant machiavellian if I ever saw one.
David Bamber plays an excellent Cicero, always plotting and counter plotting and pulling some great facial expressions whilst doing so.
Last but not least is the sometimes malevolent looking Octavian played by Simon Woods, who incidentally reminds me of a young Malcolm McDowell.
Ok for the pedentics out there the series isn't historically correct but who cares when shows of this calibre come along to grace our often mundane tv screens!
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