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...Walker as Atia, Caesar's scheming niece; with her flaming red hair and willingness to trade sex for power, she's like a Latin version of The O.C.'s villain Julie Cooper. The series humanizes figures we know as marble busts: Caesar is a calculating pol, Mark Antony (James Purefoy) a narcissistic ass and Octavian (Max Pirkis)--Atia's son and the future Caesar Augustus--a precocious boy with a gift for Machiavellian strategy. The aim is to take those historical giants off their pedestals. "Nothing changes that much," Stevenson tells TIME. "Politicians will always be politicians...
...fill the screen as they thunder a brief phrase, then vanish and aren't heard from again. We have seen a bit of this in Lester's The Knack, but how much more delightful to have such phrases be Joyce's, to have instead of "Mods and Rockers!" Theodore Purefoy's faithfully Catholic, "He employs a mechanical device to frustrate the sacred ends of nature!" or to have a solemn diagnostician pronounce. "He was born out of bedlock ... Ambidexterity is also latent," or to have a hallucinated barrister command, "The accused will now rise and make a vulgar statement...
Impatient at brides who flirt with fortune by arriving at his church as much as twenty minutes late, the Rev. Brian Purefoy last week upped his organist's fees from two to four guineas. Prompt brides will get a two guinea refund...
Some of his cases: the General, dying manfully of hardening of the arteries; Martha Purefoy, desiccated old maid who should have married him; Lady Cotterick, bullying Lady Bountiful, and her neurotic wreck of a son, only partly rebuilt by plastic surgery; Emily, the Doctor's lifelong love, who tells him today she is dying of cancer, having found time for it at last. All day as he goes his rounds he is his own worst case, for he is waiting for a letter which will give the results of an examination on himself, which he thinks will tell...