Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

MoPoshy Absolutely brilliant

Grimossfer Clever and entertaining enough to recommend even to members of the 1%

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

fleuryest Narrator states that Julius Caesar is stabbed on March 14th, thus reinventing history's Ides of March, being March 15.Unforgivable error

beltezam1939 I really had two major problems with this series, and a lot of minor ones. 1). Why were most of the Roman men bearded? I've never seen statues of Romans with beards, and nderstoodvthey considered men with beards to be barbarians. 2). The cavalry are riding with stirrups. Stirrups were unknown in Roman days.

freedomfromdebt Netflix vision of her was not accurate as in real life the Egyptian royal women shaved their heads and wore wigs in public. Bald women were looked upon as beautiful, unlike our Western vainity of women with long hair. In those times, women with long hair we're low life peasants.

trap-50581 At first I thought this gives game of thrones a run for its money and I wondered why people gave it bad reviews. It seemed normal people give it 1 for not being more exciting while history buffs give it 1 for not being historically accurate. I don't care if they added in a vase, good looking women, or a mountain since going into this show you need to understand its going to take some liberties. If you think it's boring than I doubt there is any version of this that could make you happy. What made me not like it as much is after watching the first episode where they had history experts on and built up this whole thing complaining about commodus being a untrained loser is the fact that he was only 13 years old at the time! The part is being played by a 28 year old man! It's much harder to blame a 13 year old not being ready to be the king of Rome than it is a 28y/o man. Also Commodus's mother either got some sickness and died or committed suicide. The show makes it look like the king killed her with wine. Historically there doesn't seem to be anything to back that up and some people disagree that she even had anything to do with the uprising. After not even hearing the alternate views of these events where Netflix seemed to choose the most extreme version for extra hype this really is making me skeptical about the rest of this show.