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Rome: Season 2
  • Network: HBO
  • Series Premiere Date: Aug 28, 2005
  • Season #: 1 , 2
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Metascore
68 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 18 Critics What's this?

User Score
9.3 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 108 Ratings

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  • Starring: Lorcan Cranitch, Rick Warden (II), Esther Hall
  • Summary: The second and final season of this joint production of HBO and the BBC picks up where season one left off: in the ancient Roman Empire, immediately after the death of Julius Caesar.
  • Genre(s): Action/Adventure, Drama
  • Creator: Bruno Heller, John Milius, William J. MacDonald
  • Show Type: Ended
  • Season 2 premiere date: Jan 14, 2007
  • Episode Length: 60
  • Air Time: 09:00 PM
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 18
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 18
  3. Negative: 0 out of 18
  1. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Maureen Ryan
    80
    Though every detail of this lush Roman epic feels palpably authentic, history lessons don't loom overly large; what's most enjoyable about it is how deftly it mixes soap opera with senatorial debates.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Robert Lloyd
    80
    "Rome" is smart, dirty fun.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Alessandra Stanley
    60
    "Rome" is engaging even if it isn't a swords-and-sandals version of "The Sopranos," as HBO had hoped.

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User Reviews

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 70 out of 73
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 73
  3. Negative: 2 out of 73
  1. SusanL.
    10
    bigger than life characters in a bigger than anything empire. Costumes, splendour, grittiness -- they got it right.
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  2. MichaelC.
    4
    ROME is soap opera intended to titillate like a feather drawn across the skin--or shock like a dagger plunged into the abdomen. But it is not good history or good TV.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes
  3. PhilH
    3
    Couldn't wait for the 2nd season, but have been badly dissapointed. It has lost something - turned into a sex and violence fest (not that I have anything against sex and violence). First season was classic - it may be that Michael Apted left.… Expand
    • 0 of 0 users said yes

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