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I loved this show so damn much.Д«eyond the superficialities - that it was a period piece, that it was filmed overseas on an extravagant budget, that it wouldвЂ™ve been a hard R-rating if it was a movie - Rome was also a groundbreaking precursor to Game of Thrones in subtler, artistic ways. Pullo and Vorenus were this singular, immensely enjoyable Laurel and Hardy comedy duo (but super bro-y because they were Roman soldiers) who also stabbed people in the throat and Forrest Gumped their way through all the big moments in Roman history. This dumb scene still cracks me up every time I think about it. Now, attend to that button and she will open up like a flower.вЂќДЄt this, Vorenus seems as if heвЂ™s about to open PulloвЂ™s throat, screaming вЂњHow do you know this about her?!вЂќ

вЂњWhen you couple with her thereвЂ™s this spot just above her cunny,вЂќ Pullo says.

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In one scene early in season one, Ray StevensonвЂ™s Titus Pullo (the вЂњcheerful, brutish one,вЂќ as described by Atia of the Julii) is trying to explain to Kevin McKiddвЂ™s Lucius Vorenus (вЂњthe sullen CatonianвЂќ) how to please his wife. There are so many elements of Game Of Thrones that first existed in Rome, but one thing I miss about Rome, are some of the history jokes (with Game of Thrones being set in a pseudo-mythical alternate medieval past, historical references only sort of apply).

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( Deadwood came before, but TV shows set in the Old West have been a thing since the вЂ™50s, and the infrastructure already existed.) Before Downton Abbey, before Mad Men, before Boardwalk Empire, before The Knick, before Thrones, there was Rome. Could you even do contemporary, water-cooler television capturing the zeitgeist with a show set in olden times? No one had ever really tried to this extent before. Accounting for inflation and taking the massive actor salaries of shows like ER and Friends out of the mix, Rome is still the most expensive show ever made.Д®ven if RomeвЂs producers planned for the costs, they were flying blind when it came to figuring out the showвЂ™s niche. And thatвЂ™s without adjusting for inflation.

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Marketplace reported the full per-episode cost at $9 million, which would make it a third more expensive than Game of Thrones ($6 million per episode, per the same article) is now. Using a massive set that spanned five acres, the BBC, putting up 15% of the budget, was reportedly spending ВЈ800,000 an episode, which is about $1.4 million at 2005 rates. A co-production between HBO and the BBC, the show cost upwards of $100 million for 11 episodes. Whereas The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, and The Wire all screamed вЂњcontemporary television,вЂќ Rome was a period piece, and a fabulously expensive one at that. There were the more obvious, superficial reasons why Rome (which can be streamed on HBO Now) was different. Nonetheless it succeeded in building a loyal fanbase, though that ultimately wasnвЂ™t enough to keep it from ended up getting canceled before the second season even aired. There were scattered great serialized television before, from Larry Sanders to Dream On.) But it was distinct enough from anything that had come before that it was both a huge departure and a ballsy risk. Rome, premiering in 2005, wasnвЂ™t the first. (ItвЂ™s honestly preposterous how much good TV we have now.) The Sopranos, which premiered in 1999, Six Feet Under in 2001, and The Wire in 2002 - then and now probably the high-water mark of serialized television - are the most oft-cited big three, rightly credited for carving the path followed by True Detective, Breaking Bad, Mr. There are a handful of shows usually credited for making television safe for art, for creating the current paradigm, where making insightful, relevant entertainment for television is widely seen as something worth doing. All this week, weвЂ™re taking a look at the past, present, and future of Peak TV, the current, overabundant TV golden age in which we live.

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