Both tell grand stories of violent political turmoil through the intimate lens of personal experiences. Name the most enticing aspects of Game of Thrones, and you’ll find them in Rome. By the time it arrived on British screens, the show was already notorious for its stark imagery and often casual brutality. Rome’s title sequence featured animated graffiti depicting a massive engorged penis, a woman exploding out of a man’s head, and a series of blood-stained battles. Some hated it for the same reason, but none who had seen it remained indifferent for very long.
Rome was unflinching in its portrayal of sex, violence, and sexual violence, and people loved it for that. Two years later, the product of those labors emerged, and it was an instant hit. Like the city itself, Rome was the grandest project that HBO had ever embarked upon Rome marked the first time that the US subscription channel shot a period drama overseas, and it featured elaborate, sumptuous sets and costumes that brought the atmosphere of the ancient city to vivid life on screen. Fitting for such an epic and complex story, the scale and budget of the production were unprecedented for HBO. In October of 2003, the BBC and HBO agreed to co-produce a grand and ambitious new drama series that would recount the tale of the birth of the Roman empire.
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