Rome: The Complete First Season

2005/2006

Sprawling, bloody and compulsively watchable, "Rome" is a lavish, lascivious spectacle which unfurls like a dozen mini-movies, each fraught with political intrigue, sizzling erotic encounters and gruesome combat that puts the glossy epics of Ridley Scott, et al to shame.
 
Transpiring during the final years of Julius Caesar's (Ciar