petrow-31308
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This series is among the underrated ones from the absolute peak era of television and thoroughly gone under my radar for many years.
It stands on even ground with titles like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Wire and even Game of Thrones - for which it undeniably served as atest run.
Rome is a feast for the eye, even 20 years later due to no small part of the enormous setpieces that still bear the title of the largest outdoor settings ever built. All actors and actresses bring their absolute best, and the writing overall can receive only praises. Characters are interesting, engaging, and show initiative, fallibility and growth through and through. The pacing is also superb, juggling the intra- and inter-personnel drama, the wider politics of the realm, action, violence and humor with such a masterful touch that would make even the best plate spinners nod in approval.
The cancellation is among the rare occasions where it made sense - even though it was made for budgetary reasons and it cut a few story arcs short. I would've loved to see more of Titus' and Lucius' adventures, but the 2 seasons already covered 30+ years of history IRL, and going forward would've been extremely forced.
Overall, a heartfelt recommendation for the series, if you want a swords&sandals flick, or get to know the forefather of GoT.
It stands on even ground with titles like Breaking Bad, The Sopranos, The Wire and even Game of Thrones - for which it undeniably served as atest run.
Rome is a feast for the eye, even 20 years later due to no small part of the enormous setpieces that still bear the title of the largest outdoor settings ever built. All actors and actresses bring their absolute best, and the writing overall can receive only praises. Characters are interesting, engaging, and show initiative, fallibility and growth through and through. The pacing is also superb, juggling the intra- and inter-personnel drama, the wider politics of the realm, action, violence and humor with such a masterful touch that would make even the best plate spinners nod in approval.
The cancellation is among the rare occasions where it made sense - even though it was made for budgetary reasons and it cut a few story arcs short. I would've loved to see more of Titus' and Lucius' adventures, but the 2 seasons already covered 30+ years of history IRL, and going forward would've been extremely forced.
Overall, a heartfelt recommendation for the series, if you want a swords&sandals flick, or get to know the forefather of GoT.
It's a good-hearted coming-of-age movie about a teenage girl, with stylish visuals, pleasant humour, great music and an excellent main lead. Villõ always stands on even ground beside veteran actors and it's not a stretch to say that she carries the movie on her back. I may go out on a limb here and call her the Hungarian Anya Taylor-Joy, but I'd be surprised if she wouldn't be cast into dozens of roles in the following years.
The movie is struggling a bit in terms of pacing and the storyline sometimes branches off into unnecessary tangents, but the characters are likeable. Overall, it's wholeheartedly recommended.
The movie is struggling a bit in terms of pacing and the storyline sometimes branches off into unnecessary tangents, but the characters are likeable. Overall, it's wholeheartedly recommended.
I'm not the one who writes a review for an entire series after just watching one or two episodes - it's like judging a meal when you've just seen the ingredients on the board and who the chef is going to be.
With Dune: Prophecy I stayed until the dessert even though I'd lost my appetite at the soup.
The premise was quite intriguing: going back 10 millennia before Paul Atreides, having the stage to tell us a space opera, rich in politics, intrigue and interesting characters, while showing the early decades of the forming Imperium which will stand unchallenged for quite some time.
Instead, it fell flat on its face.
Visuals, costumes and setpieces are OK, sometimes even great, but the story confines the Imperium into a couple of places through and through: Salusa has 3 locations, the castle district, the spaceport and the "club". Wallach IX is basically the school, and we get only a glimpse in a flashback episode on Caladan and Lankiveil. We won't see Arrakis outside flashbacks until the very last scene in the season finale.
Acting is a mixed bag, nothing extraordinary, but mostly serviceable. The bigger problem is the characters themselves, who don't offer much in the way of challenging the actors' and actresses' abilities.
And here we are. It's time to address the elephant in the room, the abysmal writing. For the sake of brevity I won't list everything here (it would easily fill the character limit), and I've gone through all the episodes individually.
Just some keywords: * "Tell, don't show" * Cringe, contrived dialogues, characters quite literally spelling out how awesome another character is.
* Strong female characters, weak, useless, incompetent males - NO EXCEPTION * Characters doing inexplicable 180s on their motivation, or covering years of development in a span of a single conversation.
* Some of the most contrived and convenient plot points that insult even a 5-grader's intelligence.
The show gets gradually worse and by the end of E6 it completely craters. I cannot say a single redeeming quantity about this series that would make it worth your time. I can only hope that HBO will quit funding mediocre writers and show runners, and let talented people excel, like the ones who wrote The Penguin.
With Dune: Prophecy I stayed until the dessert even though I'd lost my appetite at the soup.
The premise was quite intriguing: going back 10 millennia before Paul Atreides, having the stage to tell us a space opera, rich in politics, intrigue and interesting characters, while showing the early decades of the forming Imperium which will stand unchallenged for quite some time.
Instead, it fell flat on its face.
Visuals, costumes and setpieces are OK, sometimes even great, but the story confines the Imperium into a couple of places through and through: Salusa has 3 locations, the castle district, the spaceport and the "club". Wallach IX is basically the school, and we get only a glimpse in a flashback episode on Caladan and Lankiveil. We won't see Arrakis outside flashbacks until the very last scene in the season finale.
Acting is a mixed bag, nothing extraordinary, but mostly serviceable. The bigger problem is the characters themselves, who don't offer much in the way of challenging the actors' and actresses' abilities.
And here we are. It's time to address the elephant in the room, the abysmal writing. For the sake of brevity I won't list everything here (it would easily fill the character limit), and I've gone through all the episodes individually.
Just some keywords: * "Tell, don't show" * Cringe, contrived dialogues, characters quite literally spelling out how awesome another character is.
* Strong female characters, weak, useless, incompetent males - NO EXCEPTION * Characters doing inexplicable 180s on their motivation, or covering years of development in a span of a single conversation.
* Some of the most contrived and convenient plot points that insult even a 5-grader's intelligence.
The show gets gradually worse and by the end of E6 it completely craters. I cannot say a single redeeming quantity about this series that would make it worth your time. I can only hope that HBO will quit funding mediocre writers and show runners, and let talented people excel, like the ones who wrote The Penguin.