Domina (TV Series) Fall (2021) User Reviews

"Fall"

[allmoviesfan · 7/10 · 14 March 2024]

A pretty good opening to the eight-episode season, even if the storyline probably takes more than a few historical liberties. This is entertainment - a drama, not a documentary - so I can overlook that.

There is Civil War in Rome, and Livia Drusilla (played well by Kasia Smutniak) finds herself on the wrong side of proceedings, with both her father and husband forced into exile.

You need to pay attention as there is a lot going on. The show isn't consistently violent, but when the swords do come out, it's fairly graphic, if brief. There is a beheading at one point, though it's over quickly.

Good sets and costume design and good acting so far.

A clueless man's HBO Rome

[lmeagle-41040 · 4/10 · 27 May 2022]

From the start is seems the show is pandering to an audience that doesn't know much about this time period of history, which is fine... If it's accurate. I means "knights"? Who are you kidding? This take on Augustus is also quite strange. Where they got the idea that Octavian was some cocky womanizer and not the sickly cold blooded man he actually was, I have no idea. The true Octavian is far more interesting. Mark Antony should be displayed that way yet he comes off as quite boring. The set design and acting was quite good and I don't mind the fast pacing to set the show but the choices by the creators to display some of these characters are very questionable. Again "knights"? Do the creators even know when this is taking place? Honestly laughed out loud.

reasonable beginning

[Kirpianuscus · 25 July 2021]

No doubts, beautiful. Its basic sin, it seems be a resumee not very elaborated. Sure, the power, the lists, the second triumvirat, the poor woman falling from happiness state. But something is too much and something is missing. And the characters are buckets of contemporary traits. Tom Glynn Carney reminds me more Caligula than young Octavianus and, yes, Nadia Parkes seems be the good option for Livia, Liam Cunningham, not surprising, offering the fair portrait of honnorable man of Republic. Short, a reasonable start.