Domina trailer

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Domina follows Livia Drusilla, a naïve young girl, whose world crumbles in the wake of Julius Caesar’s assassination. But using plenty of intrigues she eventually becomes Rome's empress by conniving to marry emperor Augustus. She then ends up navigating her way through a brutal male-dominated society by means of conspiracy, seduction and murder

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[la_petite_singe]

Is this kinda the continuation of HBO's Rome we've long wanted and deserved?!? (I know S2 jumped ahead like a million years after Caesar's death, but go with me here.) I'm into it!!

[insecuredesign]

Agreed!

[gloeden2]

I still miss "Rome".
But the trailer for this show doesn't look good. "Rome" had some smarts about it. This seems very "The CW presents The Roman Empire".

[missjersey]

Cool. But NGL I'd love a series like this on Cleopatra too. And not a "she was so hot and that's how she seduced those guys" cause that's Roman propaganda. Like the real shit in how she used charisma, uniqueness, nerve, and talent to secure her throne in Egypt and her alliances with Caesar and Mark Antony.

[er1s]

That'd be a cool show I'd like to watch, but who'd be the lead?

[missjersey]

Now that's the tricky thing. Cleopatra wasn't Egyptian, she was a descendent of Macedonian Greeks. By today's standard she would have been classified as "white" but that A. didn't exist back then and B. was considered "exotic" by the rest of the Mediterranean world. The safest and most "historically accurate" call would be to hire a Greek actress, but personally I think she could also be played by a WOC and/or an Egyptian actress.

[er1s]

As much as I like it, I'm having a hard time imagining the project actually seeing the light of day.
A show about a female protagonist, played by an unknown actress that will need a ridiculous amount of budget in either locations/set or CGI. It's a hard sell but it could be amazing.

Where's HBO when you need them?

[colonel_green]

Nadia Parkes is making a career out of period court intrigue dramas.

[maggielizabeth]

i'll probably watch but the trailer didn't grip me :/

[gloeden2]

Maybe Cladius' take on her was wrong. Maybe it was right on the money. Either way, there is no way you can make this woman out to be a compelling heroine without a lot of retconning. I'm all for complicated protaganists, even anti-heros. But these people were the actual worst. Just terrible. And after seeing "Rome", which I think really did great work with characters who did verifiably evil things and still made you root for them, I don't think I want to do that again.

[aaronnyc89]

[gloeden2]

I wish it didn't make them play fast and loose with hair styles, though.
Why every woman character under 25 always gotta be running around with loose sloppy hair in these costume dramas? That would have never ever happened. It's annoying as fuck. (but only to me, apparently, lol.)

[aaronnyc89]