With acclaimed TV shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, and True Detective, HBO has a reputation for delivering consistently high-quality crime/drama TV shows set (predominantly) in the modern day.
However, as a network, HBO has proven to be similarly dependable at producing impressive historical dramas, with large budgets and seriously massive star power that ensure such shows have a remarkable cinematic quality to them.
Perhaps the best-known of these historical dramas would be Rome, which ran for two seasons (2005-2007) and was set during the 1st century BC, depicting various historical events with fictionalized versions of real-life people, aiming to show the beginning of the Roman Empire.
There’s also Boardwalk Empire, with a cast of characters — some fictional, and some based on real-life historical figures — who populate Atlantic City during the Prohibition era.
Then there’s also Carnivàle, which had fictional characters and fantastical elements, but was explicitly set during…
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