TV review - "Rome" eps 9 and 10

Julius Caesar returns to Rome and gradually takes over, so we all known mischief will be afoot soon. The character I'm getting into now is Octavia, Octavian's sister, who is coming across as a dopey, easily-influenced rich girl, likable but not too smart - after hubby was killed, now her lesbian lover gets her to sleep with her brother to get information out of him, which she does but he's on to her, so she runs off to a religious cult! (You can imagine this sort of stuff happening in Sydney's eastern suburbs.) Less pleasantly, ep 10 sees a return to some sadism - the Gaulish chief is killed painfully in a triumph (it's a long way from the muscle man who defiantly threw his arms at Caesar's feet in the Asterix comics), and Ray Stevenson kills a slave in a violent rage, though he does suffer for it.