First episodes of Rome were really good, then there were several "soap opera"-style episodes I don't care about and then rushed finish. I mean last few episodes were simply ridiculous, an important character died every 10 minutes, they were obviously in a rush to somehow close the story in in extremely limited time after the producers found out that there won't be anymore series.

I've seen only the first episode of Spartacus but so far I like it. It's good for what it is plus there are boobs of course. But I hate that they had to include American-style forced diversity. Negroes as Roman citizens, lol.