Story Line: Michael Clayton, a high-priced law firm’s fixer, leaves a late night poker game, gets a call to drive to Westchester, and watches his car blow up as he’s taking an impromptu dawn walk through a field. Flash back four days. He owes a loan shark to cover his brother’s debts (Michael’s own gambling […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 10 – “De Patre Vostro (About Your Father)” – In the series final, following his his crushing naval defeat at Actium by Agrippa’s forces, Mark Antony realizes that this spells the end for him and Cleopatra. With a hardened Octavian refusing to be bullied, shamed or negotiated from his terms […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 09 – “Deus Impeditio Esuritori Nullus (No God Can Stop a Hungry Man)” – Seven years have passed since Antony’s departure from Rome, and the former commander, dissipated and debauched – held in thrall by the charms and sexual prowess of his new bride, Cleopatra, withholds precious shipments of grain […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 08 – “A Necessary Fiction” – Octavian takes a new bride, Livia, and then introduces her to his family in a startling way… by having her witness the punishment he metes out to Atia and Octavia, for secretly defying the social constraints established through the facade of Octavia’s “marriage” to […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 07 – “Death Mask” – Inconsolable at the death of Brutus at Philippi, Servilia makes her final bid to gain the ultimate vengeance against Atia. Meanwhile, Eirene and Gaia have a major falling-out, prompting Eirene to demand that Pullo properly chastise the slave. When he does, the dynamic between the […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 06 – “Philippi” – Cicero is finally undone by his duplicity in the form of Titus Pullo, acting upon Octavian’s request to assassinate all supporters of Brutus in Rome. Pullo and Vorenus enjoy a happy if counterfeit outing with their families in the countryside to hide their assassin mission. Vorena […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 05 – “Heroes of the Republic” – Vorenus and Pullo return to the Collegium in Rome with Vorenus’ family, but some of the “changes” that Pullo had warned him about regarding his two daughters Vorena both the Elder and Younger, as well as his wife’s son, begin to manifest themselves […]
Story Line: Season 02, Episode 04 – “Testudo et Lepus (The Tortoise and the Hare)” – Having learned that Vorenus’ children are alive, Pullo sets off to find him in Gaul where he is again a serving soldier in Mark Antony’s army. He had hoped to arrive before Octavian and Antony’s armies meet in battle. […]
