"No prostitues, actors or unclean persons will be allowed".
It's a wonder they got all the cast back after that, but regardless of rumours that HBO's Rome had been cancelled, season II is here.
And everyone is so happy! So why all the long faces. Oh yes, Caesar is dead.
Dead, and the show also seems to have less budget this time around as well. No grand shots, no marching armies.
This episode had less of the mind numbing plot twists of season I, and had only one out and out howler ("ok, so I beat your man to death, will you marry me?")
She says "yes" btw.
Battle lines are being drawn here, what with Tweedle Dee cursing his soon to be missing childern, and Antony hating Brutus, Antony hating Cicero, Atia hating Servilla, Octavian trying to get anyone to listen to him.
Ixnay onway atthay insestway ingthay, okway?
The people of Rome are annoyed too.
This all in the first 10 minutes.
"I'm not getting out of bed until I've fucked somebody"
It had its usual selection of every day life, and "shocking lines" spread out here and there.
"Fetch that German slut from the kitchen"
Later, Octavian gets *all* the money, so he is listened to more.
So all and all, not a bad episode. All the chess pieces are in place, the game begins.
Best line: "You too, mother?"
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