About the only thing I liked about this episode was the Servilia suicide and curse, because it anticipates all those lovely spectacular suicides of the empire so well. Well done her - it was about all she had left and she played her hand very well.

But mainly I remain astonished that any of these people have any energy left over for running an empire with all the bedroom antics. Maybe that's the real reason why Octavian won: he was the one with all the free time to plot.

I find it hard to get worked up about the Jewish subplot especially when there's no one selling wolf nipples in the background.