- Season 2 | Rome

If Season 1 was a "comfy locomotive," Season 2 is a "bullet train". Originally planned to span five seasons, the show was famously truncated due to its massive production costs at Italy's Cinecittà Studios. This forced the writers to "telescope" years of history into just ten episodes.

The season's spine is the psychological warfare between two very different men claiming Caesar’s mantle: Rome - Season 2