From the get go, you have to be aware of one thing: This is as accurate as possible, but takes liberties in telling history as it happened. You might have read other reviews talking about "accents", but it's the language that will bother you, never mind the British accents! Because of course, Romans were not talking English back then. If you are a purist and can not take this, than do not bother watching the show at all, you'll only be spitting fire.
But if you can accept that, than the show will be very much to your liking. From the superb sets to the amazing costume designers, to the great cinematography all the way through to the "script" (again based mostly on events that occurred), that is being portrayed very exquisite by quite a lot of fine actors. Some even putting on fake accents (as you can only tell by watching behind the scenes stuff, that reveal how they normally talk).
HBO has done it again of course. And while they are allowed to go all out (literally in this case, since this was shot in Italy, massive sets were built, though tragically were burnt down as a friend told me, by accident too) and show blood, violence and sex, they do so in moderate fashion. Especially compared to the Spartacus show. It does concentrate on human stories. And while some are more free than others (Pullo and his friend are real historical figures mentioned by Caesar himself, but have been made bigger in the show than in "reality"), it is as intriguing as a show can be. And both men and women have some very strong roles in it.
I cannot recommend this high enough. If you happen to have the Blu Ray version, than do yourself a favor and treat yourself with the "All roads" feature that will pop up facts during the course of the episodes. The audio commentaries also seem to very interesting
But if you can accept that, than the show will be very much to your liking. From the superb sets to the amazing costume designers, to the great cinematography all the way through to the "script" (again based mostly on events that occurred), that is being portrayed very exquisite by quite a lot of fine actors. Some even putting on fake accents (as you can only tell by watching behind the scenes stuff, that reveal how they normally talk).
HBO has done it again of course. And while they are allowed to go all out (literally in this case, since this was shot in Italy, massive sets were built, though tragically were burnt down as a friend told me, by accident too) and show blood, violence and sex, they do so in moderate fashion. Especially compared to the Spartacus show. It does concentrate on human stories. And while some are more free than others (Pullo and his friend are real historical figures mentioned by Caesar himself, but have been made bigger in the show than in "reality"), it is as intriguing as a show can be. And both men and women have some very strong roles in it.
I cannot recommend this high enough. If you happen to have the Blu Ray version, than do yourself a favor and treat yourself with the "All roads" feature that will pop up facts during the course of the episodes. The audio commentaries also seem to very interesting