What post-Rome setting would be a good focus for a show like house of cards?

The Catilinarian Conspiracy would make a great setting for a drama, IMHO.

(The man owned seven brothels, and a fucking elephant, and in the morning he rode his elephant through Rome to collect the night's earnings while on his way to the Vatican. NOT what I'd call a very pious man!)

Reminds me of that time Pompey tried to celebrate a triumph in a chariot pulled by elephants... Turned out they couldn't fit through the city gates, so he had to transfer to a regular chariot and finish the procession in that.
 

Skallagrim

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The Catilinarian Conspiracy would make a great setting for a drama, IMHO.

Sure, but that's not post-Rome. Not that I wouldn't pay good money to watch it, mind you.


Reminds me of that time Pompey tried to celebrate a triumph in a chariot pulled by elephants... Turned out they couldn't fit through the city gates, so he had to transfer to a regular chariot and finish the procession in that.

How embarrassing.
 
The Catilinarian Conspiracy would make a great setting for a drama, IMHO.



Reminds me of that time Pompey tried to celebrate a triumph in a chariot pulled by elephants... Turned out they couldn't fit through the city gates, so he had to transfer to a regular chariot and finish the procession in that.
They could turn the SPQR novels into a great series. The Catilina conspiracy is topic of one of the books.
 
Revolution (2021)
An Amazon Prime production.
I like this idea, but imagine it with Robbespiere as a powerlusted politician, who breaks the 4th wall now and then, to get the same great moodbuilding you got with Urquhart/Underwood. The series would have to end with Robbespierres death.
 
Speaking of a show in revolutionary France, Netflix is making one!......Based on Joseph Guillotin investigating a mysterious plague called the Blueblood virus that infects the aristocracy and makes them evil.
Yep. I'm not making this up. I don't think I could make this crap up. Just give me a historical Drama!!!

I don't think you need a virus to make people evil. At least not the "vegetate in luxury stolen from the peasants" sort of evil the French aristocracy embodied.
 
The Ottoman Empire, with its harem politics, has been a good setting for political soap operas. Have you lot seen Muhteşem Yüzyıl? It's a bit like House of Cards, except they play up the romantic side of political intrigue. I haven't seen the sequel series, Muhteşem Yüzyıl: Kösem, but I think Kösem Sultan would make a pretty good Francis Urquehart.
 

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I don't think you need a virus to make people evil. At least not the "vegetate in luxury stolen from the peasants" sort of evil the French aristocracy embodied.
You misunderstood. That's not my pitch for a tv show. That's a Actual show Netflix is making. The whole concept is so idiotic I'm truly dumbfolded.
 

Kaze

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The collapse of the Umayyadd Caliphate and the creation of the Abbasid Caliphate.

Episode one would be the Battle of Talas.

You could even go with a fictional hero --- King Shahryr as one of the Caliphs. (he mentions his primary wife Scheherazade, but she never shows up in the series) {It is my guess that the story of Scheherazade and her endless 1001 tales probably happened somewhere between the Umayyadd and death of Charlemagne.}
 
How about the fourth crusade? Jude law as the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, he has been pope. Robert Duvall as innocent iii, my patron saint. Patrick Stewart as the head of the cathars.

What have the Cathars to do with the fourth crusade except sharing the time period?
I would go with Patrick Stewart as Doge Enrico Dandolo.
 
Not actually compliant with the op, but I'd watch the hell out of a show following the Achaemenid Empire, from the conquests of Cyrus to the eventual collapse under Darius III/Alexander. I'm thinking S1 - Kuruš of Anshan's rise to power, the overthrow of the Medean Empire, the conquests of Anatolia and Mesopotamia and climaxing with the capture of Babylon and Cyrus being declared King of Sumer and Akkad. Season 2 could follow the aftermath of his death, with the first half following Cambyses' conquest of Egypt and Darius' plotting, peaking with the death of Cambyses, and the second half following the civil war between Darius and Barsyas, climaxing with Darius' victory. The third season could follow the wars with the Greeks, while the fourth could follow the aftermath, with the fifth possibly following Darius III and maybe Alexander up until the burning of Persepolis, and an epilogue saying that after Alexander died his empire collapsed into civil war because he left no clear successor.
 
How about the fourth crusade? Jude law as the patriarch of the Orthodox Church, he has been pope. Robert Duvall as innocent iii, my patron saint. Patrick Stewart as the head of the cathars.

What have the Cathars to do with the fourth crusade except sharing the time period?
I would go with Patrick Stewart as Doge Enrico Dandolo.


Innocent turned his sword on the Greeks and cathars

Ah the Fourth Crusade: The time the Crusaders sack Christian cities and genocide the Cathars. ( It was full on 'angry Genghis Khan and Sodom and Gomorrah'.)

And they never got to Egypt.
 
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