Mr Excitement
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A great article on what was and is still my favorite TV show of all time. If you haven't watched Rome I highly suggest you do. What an epic show it was.
http://uproxx.com/tv/rome-hbo-a-love-latter/2/
As creator Bruno Heller told Entertainment Weekly:
“They didn’t take our spot. They learned a lot from a business commercial sense, what not to do. Rome was the first show HBO shot out of country with large budget that was period. The mistakes we made are the mistakes Game of Thrones learned from. Many of the directors and producers are the same. Thrones is a brilliant show, brilliantly executed. One of the reasons it will continue is there’s a series of books that assure the powers that be that you have a structure. One of the challenges from HBO’s point of view was Romehad a large and ambitious structure but we were making it up as we went along instead having those wonderful books.”
“Just like many of the other shows in the same class, [Rome is] a show that ended early rather than got strung out and had the juice squeezed out of it,” Heller says. “It ended for reasons other than running out of things to say. I loved it. I thought it was a great show. There’s a sense that there’s unfinished business.”
Whether or not Rome ever comes back in some form or not, I’ll always love it just the same, a show that burned hot, lived fast, died young, and left a good-looking corpse. A really expensive-looking corpse.
http://uproxx.com/tv/rome-hbo-a-love-latter/2/
As creator Bruno Heller told Entertainment Weekly:
“They didn’t take our spot. They learned a lot from a business commercial sense, what not to do. Rome was the first show HBO shot out of country with large budget that was period. The mistakes we made are the mistakes Game of Thrones learned from. Many of the directors and producers are the same. Thrones is a brilliant show, brilliantly executed. One of the reasons it will continue is there’s a series of books that assure the powers that be that you have a structure. One of the challenges from HBO’s point of view was Romehad a large and ambitious structure but we were making it up as we went along instead having those wonderful books.”
“Just like many of the other shows in the same class, [Rome is] a show that ended early rather than got strung out and had the juice squeezed out of it,” Heller says. “It ended for reasons other than running out of things to say. I loved it. I thought it was a great show. There’s a sense that there’s unfinished business.”
Whether or not Rome ever comes back in some form or not, I’ll always love it just the same, a show that burned hot, lived fast, died young, and left a good-looking corpse. A really expensive-looking corpse.
