SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the entire first season of “Those About to Die,” now streaming on Peacock.
In the underbelly of Rome in Peacock’s swords-and-sandals epic “Those About to Die,” you can call Tenax (Iwan Rheon) many things. Bookie, fixer, faction leader, patron saint of orphans. But by the end of the Season 1 finale, he’s assumed one more title, whether he likes it or not: emperor killer.
It all goes back to his messy alliance with Domitian (Jojo Macari), the youngest son of the late Emperor Vespasian (Anthony Hopkins), who never quite accepted his older brother Titus (Tom Hughes) succeeding their father on the
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