Yeah, and how cruel was it that Gaia declined the extra ingredient that would help stop bleeding!
“She-Pullo” 
I like how Eirene brings out Pullo’s softer side, but he and Gaia together are really something.
The most powerful scene to me was Servilla’s curse and suicide. And I hate to criticize something so brilliantly conceived and written, but damn the director for not establishing a continuity in her chants. A simple pitch-harp and decibel meter would have made it all perfect. But I kept getting yanked out of the fantasy. Chanting in E. Cut. Chanting in G sharp. Echoes all through the house. Cut. Barely audible whispering in a soft raspy voice. Cut. Singing gloriously and in excelsis for justice! Cut. Gurgling and moaning for justice. And that’s just as Atia walked from the table to the door.
Yeah. I wouldn’t have noticed the key changes, but the strength/weakness lack of continuity was hard to miss. They might have just let her voice weaken, or let the crowd start chanting for Atia. Still, it’s hard to criticize.
They didn’t have to have Atia “dreaming” of the curse later in the episode. . .I think most viewers got the point.
That was a pretty satisfying smack down, though. . .right in the middle of pillow talk.
I thought this was a great episode for all the reasons previously mentionned.
I absolutely loved Antony’s bedscene with Octavia. That just sounded so true. I couldn’t believe they actually made him spit in his hand. Good stuff, good stuff.
A ton of stuff happened in this episode as well. Sevilia’s death, Antony’s marriage, Harod’s assasination gone awry, Vorenus’ daughter becoming a spy, Pullo’s slip/affair, the abortion plot, the casual way Pullo and Vorenus discuss the beating or Marc Anthony and Octavian kick atia out before discussing the marriage contract, and I’m probably missing a bunch of other stuff.
All in all, Fantastic episode in my opinion. I really, REALLY hope this isn’t the last season we ever see.