Rome - The Complete First Season (DVD, 2006, 6-Disc Set)

Watch this one and you've got to keep reminding yourself that it's NOT a major motion picture with a nearly unlimited budget, because that's what it surely "plays" like. It has a subtle style of playing certain disturbing scenes quickly, jumping in with little build-up. I LOVE that, because after all, THAT IS what life is like sometimes, one minute you're on top of the world, the next you're getting ground into the dirt. Rome ground a LOT of people beneath it's wheels, and this show doesn't hesitate to show us this. It'll grab you up and you'll watch all these DVD's as quick as you can.