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This show is surprisingly very good.
"Twenty years ago, Augustus ruled with Mark Antony. But I could see that wouldn't last. I could see that soon one man would be king. So I divorced your father and married Augustus. AND. WAITED. Now where would I be now if I'd wanted everything at once, eh? And by that same token where would you be?" -Sian Phillips as Livia in I Claudius (1976)
No Rome series even comes close!
Sian Phillips was glorious actress. She was the greatest screen - Livia ever
@@aleksandarstavric2226 She was.
Interesting
Hey, I'm sub to you lol. Cough cough Achilles in the troy tv show
can you do a video about this
Omg it's you I'm a huge fan and I gotta tell you this show is amazing I can't wait for season 2
So what did you think?
This is a very good show coming from someone who loves historical dramas
Indeed, a very excellent tv show with a lot of political intrigue and a good familial drama. But from a historical point of view it’s not that great
Am a fan of historical dramas too But unfortunately none of them is 100% accurate 😕💔
I tried to watch it and turned it off not long after. It seemed too modernised! I hate when they do that with period pieces. I may try again because the trailer is good and looks different to the few minutes I saw of it!
binged watched all of this in one day, excellent , there had better be a series 2
Where did you find it?. I'm looking everywhere to watch it.
@@DAVIDTORRESANI did you find it?
@@justchecking6613 hello, nope. Such a bummer to my mood.
@@DAVIDTORRESANI do you have an email? I'll send you a link where you can watch. Are you in the US
try this
Number one turn off in any historical drama: modern pop music.
Modern lingo, modern gesticulations, etc. It's quite jarring
Agreed
@Stevospeedo As a women, I hands down agree.
@Stevospeedo too true, in todays there has to be virtue signalling
@Stevospeedo i agree and don't at the same time :") like most women weren't in charge thats for sure but they were strong and powerful in many other ways life wasn't easy back then soo instead of annoying us with fake utopic pasts they could show us the reality of it since its enough for us to know how strong women can be and for a good show ....
Reminds me a lot of the old HBO series "Rome" from 2005, which itself has aged remarkably well for a TV series.
I loved Rome never forget Mark Anthony’s first scene . It was like GoT before GoT
Aged well? Its ageless. Brilliant. Trendless.
@@killerjob12 Snows ALWAYS melt - Mark Antony's best reply for GoT ;)
This show will not come close to HBO's Rome. You can tell from the trailer, it looks like historical accuracy will take a back seat to style and melodrama.
@@xanderk84 HBO Rome is no where near historically accurate lol
AMAZING WRITING. Omg what a show
Love this show.
that colour bar at the bottom really makes it less immersive
My daughter is a Livia, so I've been looking forward to a Livia Drusilla centered piece. I've been rather hoping that History Channel would develop such a show, but while we wait for that..
History Channel would put aliens in it somehow.
It's an American/Italian production. Finally a tv show about Roman History. Livia Drusilla was a badass woman
Interesting & nostalgic 👍💖
Ohhh I'm so excited!!!
when the first episode was released?
Currently watching this. I’ve watched episode 1 and I like this!
Could either be a really interesting take on the period from Livia pov or a bad case of modern politics going full revisionist. Hoping for the former, expecting the later.
just watch the 1st scene quand you'll figure
@@osez111 is it woke? Won't watch it if it is...
@@HandleDeezNutzVoluntarily trust me it's not woke... It's not cringe and woke like other TV shows like Bridgeton, Witcher, bat woman and other trash out there
@@eons8941 Good too hear... I'll give it a go.
@@eons8941 Witcher was good!
name of the song???? pls
I was lucky to see all 8 episodes. While it's not Rome (which is far more detailed, period authentic, etc), this is quite good. Faster paced, blunt/great dialogue. Plenty of backstabbing. Overall, delicious.
Yes! I enjoyed Rome tho a bit outdated I'm looking for something similar.
Anyone know the name of the song?
ES EXCELENTE
I'm so crazy about this show.
Cuando veremos la temporada 2?
Siân Phillips is Livia Drusilla. "I, Claudius" puts this to shame. They didn't even need a decent budget to be good.
Bellissimo! BRAVO! Outstanding! I just binged watch Season 1. The set design, drama, acting all brilliant! The scenery & clothing & lifestyle so utterly realistic and marvelous! I WANT more!
Bullshit. Read real stuff on Rome. This show is utter nonsence.
@@annle2515 Roma with a
Good show
The problem with Livia is that historically, we dont know how many she got killed, if any at all. Saying this will be "the true story" is impossible because of a lack of knowledge. There is really room for interpretation. I tend to think she was not as cynical as some say, i.e. she did not have Augustus' kids killed e.g. They were, as far as we know, happily married for along time. In the ancient world, many people die young. And many others might want some of the kids dead for whatever reason.
Most of what people think they know about the Julio-Claudians comes from I, Claudius which is fiction, and Suetonius, who was the Rupert Murdoch - sensationalist - of his day.
@@DigitalBath742=
I'm guessing this is a kinder and gentler retake of Sian Phillips' tarantula Livia in I, Claudius -- a very tough act to follow!
0:32 did I hear what she said correctly?
Outstanding show. Even notable historians have given it the thumbs up. The streaming market is actually a little crowded with rather excellent material which is the only reason *Domina* has not received greater acclaim.
Can you name the well-known historians? Because very little was historically accurate. A strong criticism is that the characters were only vaguely hinted at, nothing that you could memorize. But the series was always politically correct. A colored woman in a remarkable position at the time, and poor Marcellus, one of the few historical people, was given a bad character in a series and then simply turned into a homosexual. It's certainly not surprising that the series Domina received so little acclaim.
From the history that I grew up on they weren’t called homosexuals sorry they actually didn’t have a label back then they didn’t look at it that way if you heard of an orgy that’s what they were famous for and they didn’t really look at sex like we do nowadays it was mostly just a thing that they in joyed
@@siggisn7885 No show is ever going to be a 00% accurate but it does try to be as accurate as it can be yes it’s changed some things as it needed to sti
I loved Livia❤wish for ssn 3
Such a good show!!
Did I spy a glimpse of Liam Cunningham? Edited to add: Just went to IMDB, and yes, I did !! Will watch for him alone.
Good ol Ser Davos always commands the scene he is in.
*I wish to see a TV series about the story of emperors Claudius gothicus and Aurelian, and how they together raised Rome from the crisis* but plz keep the history as it was 🥲🥲
Trailer music?
She’s so pretty
Sky logo is very beautiful
Ahhh I am so excited to see Matthew McNulty in this!!
and he's good again
WHEN IS SEASON 2 COMING UP?
Love from India
Brian Blessed said he played Augustus like the president of a Building Society.
Its the spiritual successor of Rome HBO. They even use the same sets
Halfway through this now brilliant series was expecting something like game of thrones but it’s more like the sopranos especially when Livia gives someone a sideways glance and you instantly know they’re getting whacked and Tony’s mother is her namesake
i never seen sky original series. what about the gore and nudity/sex?
@@darkknight4353 it’s got all that as well
So when I was young I watched I, Claudius and that was it for me, I can't see Livia any other way.
Yes. I watched it when I was a kid. Well actually my parents made me. A world of treachery
Does anyone know this song?
Is there any way to get this is the States?
You heard of the internet?
@@shittywife I meant, legally. SkyTV doesn’t offer streaming here.
I can suggest a site
EPIX June 6th, 10 pm EST
@@interface2x Thank you!
When is coming out??
Sky Atlantik, Sky am 03.06.21
Watch the show before you judge. It's actually good.
Kasia Smutniak is sooo polish name then all i can say is greetings from Polska 🇵🇱
she is polish, she married an italian tv-actor
Where can I watch this outside the UK? 🤓
Epix
@@kamalkohar8674 gonna try that. Never heard about it before. Thank you
Got half way through the first episode; gave up. Feels in tone like it's pitched to teenagers, giving a kind of "history light" version of story telling. Personally; not impressed.
❤️❤️❤️
"Ulysses in a frock." - Caligula
Hâte !
might check this out JUST for HER.
Oh. Will they paint Drusilla as a heroine?
Почему она не чёрная?
what happened in episode three? Did they just fire the whole cast and replace them?
No. They jump forward about 12 years. Livia has two baby young boys at the end of episode 2, but in episode three they are teenagers and she has been married to Octavian for a over a decade.
It was an annoying change...
I am Rome History Buff this movie series in one sentence: Don't miss this it's good, not excellent, but very good. :) ( no kids under 18 though to watch almost X rated)
90 comments and only 2 about the song!! What is the name of the song!!???
Soundtrack Manuel Sim, super
😍😍😍
Can't make out one single word that's being said in this whole trailer
for what little was said at the beginning, It was clear as thin air, maybe think about purchasing a better sound set up or play around with your EQ settings.
Don't you dare cancelling this show. I want season 2 otherwise I will cursed you
Launch sky service in India including sky sports channels and sky mobile 5G SIM
I didn't know Rome had an empress. Interesting.
They didn't.
@@suepem They did. Livia Drusilla after the death of Augustus was adopted by him and was called Augusta. And in the first year of Tiberius reign it was basically Livia who run the empire unofficially. However officially, Rome had a woman on the imperial throne, it was the wife of the emperor "Aurelian the restorer of the world". After his assassination, she took the regency for months so the senate or the army can elect a new emperor
They have its livia the first roman Empress and the last one was Maria empress of Constantine XI.
They had several..
I'm searching every network and I can't find it..
@@buffybufff I'm on it right now but it only plays adds or pop ups interrupt. No Domina. I'll see why it's doing that but cool site.
Prime video just picked it up.👍👍✌
Well I never seen this it does look like it going to be good but just from the intro the timeline doesn’t look right what I mean by that the buildings they look like they’re from today, not back then all beat up and broken especially the waterline that goes to the city
👍
Livia did it!
What is Sky TV???
I'm not sure... Soldiers look a bit Hollywood. And, are we meant to sympathise with Livia now?
oh honey, Livia has not been proven to have done anything she was accused of, actually many historians have debunked the accusations as they don’t make sense
@@laoch5658 lol hopefully this won’t be a feminist show but most of the things about Livia is probably false. Romans love to gossip on people they didn’t like
@@isabellindin3398 Yeah, It’s not strange that all potential Augustus ‘s successors die and somehow Tiberius her loved son manage to survive. Yeah she surely did nothing wrong.
@@secretunknown253 they surely didn’t like for a reason.
@@donrog5035 Maybe read a few Academic articles on how the Ancient writers had sexist prejudices against Livia and wrote her to be tremendously evil with no sustainable evidence x
If only this show go full latin just like the Barbarians show, it would have been great~~~~
Game of Romes
My wife and I watched about twenty minutes and turned it off. In the first five minutes of this series, it incorrectly states that Caesar was murdered in 44 BC, and that he was stabbed to death out side the Senate. This is totally wrong. It was in side the Senate in 43 BC. They called it the Ides Of March. If some one wants to write about history they should learn it first. Two thumbs down!
Its actually accurate. He did die in 44BC and it wasnt in the senate but near it, at the statue of Pompei
---------- Right away I see, that the men and women in this series wear today's hairstyles, but not the known Roman hairstyles. I wonder, why... ----------
Just wrapped this show, not bad, very disjointed but not bad.
Were there many west Africans with American accents in ancient Rome?
There were west Africans with Latin accents in Ancient Rome at least.
@@achillerea5577 Yes, there were some black Africans in ancient Rome ... but to be honest, not as many as you see on American TV shows ... Lol. Actually, in ancient times, in the Mediterranean countries, the sub Saarian peoples were an exotic population and quite rare to meet. I think Hollywood has to comply with some positive discrimination laws ... it's not that important anyway, but it's good to know.
To be fair. No one know how Roman people sounds
domina the creators of rome
Wasted opportunity. Incredibly heavy-handed. Livia was historically portrayed as scheming woman, plotting and scheming for her own ends of putting her son in power, she had no interest in the republic. In this show she is some sort of Mary Sue, and all the historically power-characters in the show are just kinda thrown around like horny and childish men. Every good idea from a male-character comes from Livia for some reason. And the heavy handed bit; They keep repeating phrases like '' Women of rome are ment to bare children and stay silent'' over and over, while Livia literally says at one point '' Do men not know anything '' while the men are as per usual walking around not understanding whats going on. They keep talking about women like a summary from a history book. Other small details that are just so annoying, while I can understand how they don't have the budget to show the great clash between Anthony, Gaius and Brutus in greece, they do decide to show the aftermath where Livias farther kills himself - And for some reason the dead are littered in a forest ( ???? ) It was supposed to have been a massive battle containing up to 70k soldiers, both arranged in Roman battle formations. The Romans do not fight in forests, they fight on open plains. The concept of religion is very distant in show, and is merly mentioned in passing on random occasions. I get that they speak English, but the show is literally called ''Domina'' and yet for some reason they have lower classes refer to nobles as lord instead of dominus. If you want a realistic experience and portrayal of the age, HBOs Rome dwarfs this frankly weak attempt at making a show theme in ancient Rome. This show wanted to try showcase Rome from the perspective of a woman, and picked a perfect character to do so, but in these modern times are incapable of portraying her with her flaws, and bringing brilliance to her characters without having to drag down other historically brilliant characters. Chief among being Gaius Octavian who has been relegated to a horny boy with no real wit about him.
Just what I was afraid of. Glad I read this and saved myself the bother.
Dude, even Spartacus is better than this & that's a more of action swords & sandals tv series.
What about Britainia ?
THANK YOU! There are very few historical female figures interesting enough to learn about and Drusilla is one of them. Thanks for sparing me of the disappointment.
@@crozraven I remember reading somewhere that they tried to craft the dialogue (English though it was) with accurately Latin-inspired structures; they never used ‘yes’ or ‘no’ as singular answers, but affirming or negating phrases, & used ‘I’ very rarely- I remember they used the word ‘gratitude’, in place of ‘thank you’ - while it took me a minute to get into- once I did, it felt so natural- like I was listening to Latin having been translated/ transliterated into English. The use of English, in place of a foreign, or dead language/s isn’t necessarily bad, in my view- I just hate the dialogue & expressions being modern - you can have authenticity, without 100% accuracy, IMO- but you should also actually make the story engaging; honestly, it shouldn’t be so hard- they say ‘history is stranger than fiction’, for a reason...
They take a few liberties, but this show is very historically accurate.
it is not .. I was living in Rome in this period. this show is not realistic
@@tripp8833 you should become a screen writer then...
And why did they take these liberties?
No its not. Feminism did not exist back then, stop shorting the subject of empty claims.
I've watched the entire series, If you expect Rome s3 you'll be disappointed but if you can leave the historical facts aside you can even enjoy it
It looks like it was intended fore a female audience like outlander, would you say this is true?
How do you watch such trash that tramples on basic historical facts without it ruining your immersion? You know these decisions are political. They aren’t honest mistakes. These are details that could have been simply fixed with a flick of a pen. Instead they decide to insult our intelligence and treat us like idiots. Knowing this destroys the immersion even more.
As a big fan of Rome the tv show, this looks terribly bad
As a big fan of I, Claudius the TV show, Rome was terribly bad. Also, as a student of history, Rome was terribly bad. This trailer was so jumpy and incoherent, I have no real take on it.
U GOT THAT RIGHT , I HAVE EPIX was sucked BIG TIME, is a chick flick, from this chick to that chick from this sex to that sex ...BUT cant wait for THE WAR OF THE WORLDS in EPIX this Sunday first season was amazing...2 suggesting WATCH >> VIKINGS , IN HULU OR PRIME VIDEO is 6 season , is truly masterpiece, well well done, cast & shot, Love the soundtrack ... OR watch>> ROME series in HBO is made like decade ago BUT is really good, well done, Grand & Epic ..I remembered WON ALOTS AWARDS & was the MOST expensive series ever made
Rome had a much bigger budget and a much bigger production value.
Way to romantize a woman who killed all August's heirs just to make sure her son was Emperor, a title he never wanted, which destroyed his previous happy life.
Hmmm
idk guys i think Livia might have killed drusus. Actually I might have done it too.
For everyone saying this will be good have you forgotten what these people did to Achilles in the troy tv show?
Are you mad because they made him Black or Gay, because if it's the latter you should probably reread the illiad.
@@ajaylivingston1417 I'm a gay African American. Achilles had blond hair in the Illiad and relationship was platonic In fact that is where we got the word "platonic " from the greeks
@@ajaylivingston1417 I had no idea they made him gay too XD Time to go back reading the Chinese Grave Robbers Chronicles!
@@eszterfodor1136 The original myth kinda already did that..... Or at the very least that has been the interpretation for centuries now. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achilles_and_Patroclus
@@Seti-ms9bs Gonna need some of source on the platonic thing (especially seeing thought the word originated from Plato) dude. Also, sure you are.
Here's the problem. Having seen Season 1, I can say with certainty that the series has no protagonist. Every major character is either spiteful, murderous, treacherous, shallow or a combination of these qualities. As a result, there's nobody to root for because you genuinely don't care about any of them. That gives me no reason to watch Season 2.
Isn't this based off the game Domina?
Nope. That's was about a Ludus owner. This is about the first empress of Rome.
Just please no leather lorica segmentata please by the gods.
Shows for gays and girls. Not saying its bad but I had hoped it was about Nero's mother. Which lets face it you don't get more dominant than her.
seems a bit boring to me, hope it will find its audience...
boring is thats the best out of it...woah
Siân Phillips - one and only Livia Augusta .... I love the show but this actress here is just not my coup of tea
Roman girl power and monkeys
All, absolutely ALL, costumes and hairstyles are nothing historical, not even an interesting peplum fantasy. Is just more grunge-postHBO's Rome 😣😭😤🤢
I just love how they copied the name from another game.
Brother, the world is older, than video games. "Domina" means "a lady", the owner of the household goods including slaves, the wife of the house lord. This is the way, how you should address a woman, especially a noblewoman in the world where the spoken language was Latin. The series is about the historical figure, Livia Drusilla who was the wife of Octavianus Augustus, the first emperor of the Roman Empire. She is, as you can see, the Domina.
@@trueromancat7978 So, will the series be 100% historically accurate 🤔 why I feel not?? Because all tv series did so
"True story" LOL
AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA 1:00 a Nubian woman on horse wearing a male's outfit in 1st cent. B.C. Rome? AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA "The True Story of Livia Drusilla" AHAHAHHAHAHHA please no more AHAHAHHAHAAHA
the show is amazing, rome sucked the most and spartacus the tv show was the best.
if you set aside the Coliseums' crowd scenes...laughably copied from one sequence to the next scene..over and over..Spartacus was so ridiculous it was silly.
What stupid music for a movie portraying Ancient Rome! I can only imagine that kind of trash they created!