"Domina" Rise (TV Episode 2021) Poster

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"Rise"
allmoviesfan15 March 2024
Warning: Spoilers
Following the announcement of an amnesty, Livia is able to return to Rome, where it appears that everyone is sleeping with someone who isn't their significant other.

The episode title "Rise" surely - SURELY - has to be a pun, right? That said, you rarely see anything. The childbirth scenes were more graphic.

Rome being Rome, and everyone trying to climb higher on the social and political power ladders, there is lots of scheming going on - I guess they have to do something in between all their sleeping around.

Isabella Rossellini makes an appearance as a thoroughly unlikeable brothel owner.

There's no doubt that Domina is beautifully conceived. No expense is spared on costumes or set design and those elements, combined with the good acting, make this a worthwhile watch.
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not new "Rome"
Kirpianuscus25 July 2021
For similarity of subject - same period, , the first temptation is to compare it with "Rome" by Bruno Heller. But this episode gives some reasons to not make this parallel. First, because the perspective is real different and the events are only sketches/ frames for a story with feminist flavors. Second, because it is more superficial , in almost all senses. I repete, it is just a beautiful series , for clothes, rooms, rituals, in few cases for acting. But it remains one of decent historical series , with the basic virtue to be a sort of kick for discover the real events in history books. In the case of this episode, the drop of spice remains the presence of Isabella Rosellini in a role reminding Ursula from Little Mermaid and the characters of Fellini..
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