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The first season of Rome was absolutely amazing, the second season was good but by the time they were ready to shoot HBO had cancelled the series, forcing the cast, writers and production to shorten the script and close out the series after the second season.

This is an amazing series and if it would have run the full gamut, would have gone down as the best series ever from HBO bar none, imho.

2 seasons only?

Is the story wrapped up at the end or does it end on a cliff hanger?

Quote from FreeBaGeL : Is the story wrapped up at the end or does it end on a cliff hanger?

Cliff hanger. It has no real ending imho.

Quote from BayArea : 2 seasons only?

Yep they announced they would cancel after the second season.

It took off after the DVD/Stream/Bluray of the first season was available, that was when it had it's second wind. But unfortunately, HBO had to pull the plug because the ratings weren't' high enough in the first season. After the plug was pulled, writers, directors, actors went their separate ways and HBO couldn't proceed with a third season even if they wanted to.

The real sad point of this all was that it was probably going to be the best show on tv for many years to come but initially the studio gambled 100 million and lost because they didn't want to lose out on more money if it were to fail further.

This show is good but far from the best series. The Wire is still much better than this. I find this more entertaining than Breaking Bad or Mad Men. I also prefer this over Sopranos.

Great show...highly recommend if you have not seen it.

Quote from more123 : Is this better than the tudors?

Absolutely!

Great show but like others have said, only 2 seasons. At the end of season 2 you are left wanting more.

too bad this show ended so abruptly... it was a great show

I'm another one who thinks this is one of the best shows ever made.

Quote from webhappy : This show is good but far from the best series. The Wire is still much better than this. I find this more entertaining than Breaking Bad or Mad Men. I also prefer this over Sopranos.

The Wire was good but no where "much better" than Rome.

I know its subjective, but Rome is the best TV series I've seen. Lots of other great shows have been/are being made, but if I had to pick a favorite, its Rome for me.

Its just such a shame this show got knee capped by HBO while the 1st season was still in the middle of airing.

Some didn't think the 2nd season flowed as well as the first. There is a reason for that. The show creators originally envisioned a 5 season story arc, but that plan was blown to pieces when HBO made the decision green light a 2nd season, but effectively abort the show once that was completed .

So the creaters decided to cram the stories of the planned season 2 and 3 into Rome's final season. Originally, Season 2 was to conclude with the Battle of Phillipi. Season 3 was to be dedicated to Mark Antony's time in Egypt with Cleopatra, and finish up with the Battle of Actium.

With Octavian's/Agustus power secured, the storyline in S04 was to shift some toward Jerusalem.(this is where the whole Timon storyline was headed) Since King Herrod sided with Antony in Rome's most recent civil war, we would have got to see him kiss major Octavian ass to remain in power. Additionally, Pullo and Vorenus were set to smuggle Cesaerian into Jeruselum. There, his identity would have been changed, and he was to become the young(you guessed it) Jesus Christ. Yes, it would really deviated from history enormously, but man, talk about EPIC! Sure would have pissed off a shit ton of people too!

Season 5 would have carried forward through the life of Jesus with Roman take on events during that time.

if i was a billionaire i'd have paid HBO to finish up the whole series the way it was meant to be, if what Gnomatic says is true.