Review: “Those About to Die” is melodrama pure and simple
I’m not much given to making predictions, but it seems a safe bet that in 100 or even 500 years, in whatever has become the hot entertainment medium of the day, someone will be making an epic of ancient Rome. The context might be different, depending on, say, whether the audience is living in a republic or an empire, but the basics will remain the same: sex and violence, swords and sandals, bread and circuses, the decadent rich and the honest poor.
At the hub of several narrative strands is Tenax , a first-century bookmaker, whose busy betting shop is one of the series’ liveliest creations, and the one I was most ready to believe. Ambitious to move up in the ancient world, Tenax seeks to add a new “faction” to the four established racing stables, whose horses and drivers exclusively compete in the Circus Maximus, a giant track out back of the imperial residence.
Working for Tenax, indeed transforming his business, is Cara , newly arrived from North Africa. Multilingual, literate, with a head for figures and a talent for innovation — and arguably the series’ smartest person — she has followed her kidnapped children to Rome in hopes of bringing them home. Daughters Jula and Aura wind up at the slave market, while son Kwame , small but mighty, has been attached to the gladiators, as good as a death sentence.
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