Rome

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For anyone worrying about going through Pullo withdrawl, Ray Stevenson will be starring in the CBS show Babylon Fields in fall 2007. It's billed as a zombie comedy-drama.

[Britty]

Has that show been picked up? I thought he was just signed on to do the pilot hoping that CBS would order episodes? I heard Kevin McKidd was also signed for a pilot.

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According to the Jan. 26, 2007 issue of Variety it has been picked up. Do you know which pilot Kevin McKidd is signed for?

[jettrink]

Journeyman

[Daisy Pusher]

Just watched the final episode again last night to catch all the details I may have missed Sunday. Oh, who am I kidding? I watch Rome any time it's on.

Purefoy in eyeliner still smoking hot; great death scene. Loved how Vorenus dressed the body in full Roman general uniform. The look he gave Cleo when she came in. I was really hoping we'd get more historical revisionism and he'd kill her, but ah well.

Creepy Octavian. Ugh. I know he was supposed to be a cerebral type of person, but I never had any sympathy for him as a person once Max Perkis was replaced. Maybe that is a testament to Simon Wood's ability as an actor, etc. Maybe Octavian just was a prissy shitheel in reality, too, because Simon Woods was a fitting successor to Roddy McDowell. Although he was appropriately snaky during his scene with Cleopatra.

Atia, what a woman. WOW. Polly Walker deserves an Emmy on the strength of this episode alone. The smackdown to Livia, and then the look on her face after the bodies of Antony and Cleopatra went by (I assume they were the actual bodies, not effigies). Bitterness and ashes.

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kokopelli said:

Atia, what a woman. WOW. Polly Walker deserves an Emmy on the strength of this episode alone. The smackdown to Livia, and then the look on her face after the bodies of Antony and Cleopatra went by (I assume they were the actual bodies, not effigies). Bitterness and ashes.

Amen. Polly so deserves that Emmy. I re-watched her smackdown to Livia several times and the emotions she was able to convey with just her beautiful eyes alone was some of the finest acting I have seen in ages. That just has to be the reel she submits. I will miss Atia so much.

According to the HBO site, they were effigies and not the actual bodies.

[Atreides]

According to the HBO site, they were effigies and not the actual bodies.

I was watching it again last night and I could have sworn I saw flesh beneath the masks of "Antony" and "Cleopatra." I figured they killed a couple of slaves and used them as stand-ins. Not sure why Octavian wouldn't use their actual corpses though since he had ready access to them.

And I re-watched Atia's smackdown repeatedly too! The camerawork and lighting in that scene was magnificent. It's a testament to Polly Walker that I love Atia so much when her character is such an arrogant and vicious woman.

[Atreides]

Sorry for the double-post but I hope four months is enough time in between.

Just a reminder that Season 2 comes out on DVD on Aug. 7. The show received several technical Emmy nominations (cinematography, makeup, etc.) but none in the main categories. Boo!

[cantienne]

Boo indeed - I loved the first season and am excited to see the second. I got HBO for the summer just to see the end of the Sopranos, and am peeved with them because it seems like they never replay Rome or put it on OnDemand.

ETA that I prompted myself to look at HBO's online schedule, and they're replaying Season 2 on HBO 2, starting the 13th. Two episodes a night, every night at 9, all week. I am no longer peeved.