Never seen it-- but heard it was worth watching. This quote caught my eye:
"reports pegged the cost of the first season at somewhere around $100 million. Its ratings on HBO were decent (most episodes drew between 2 million and 3 million viewers)"
The cheeezy show I work on costs about one or two percent of Rome's budget to shoot and has an audience of between 800,000 and 1.2 million. How does it make any possible economic sense to spend 100 mil on a show with only slightly better numbers?
Sounds like a pure vanity project.
HBO's Deadwood is a show I'll miss when it goes up to Boot Hill after this season.
I read somewhere that HBO and David Milch are still in talks about Deadwood.
Deadwood lost it's mojo after Wild Bill died. I watched the 2 episode second season or whatever it was and it just seemed tired.