TV series

The Caesars

1968 · 1 season

A slow, talky plunge into ancient power struggles, staged with stark black-and-white intimacy and psychological nuance.

Overview: The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
How it feels: Dark, tense, melancholic and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Power, politics, betrayal, corruption
Content: Mild violence, gore and sexual content. No swearing.
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Tone: darkstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 1 of 3
earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: power
politics
betrayal
corruption
family
Places: big city
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore mild
Language none
Violence mild
Sex mild