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Watch Domina (2021) Season 1 online on iFILM — eight episodes of Roman historical drama told not from the throne but from the woman quietly building it. The story belongs to Livia Drusilla, the future wife of Octavian Augustus.
It opens with ruin. The civil war that follows Julius Caesar's murder strips Livia of everything; her father and husband are beaten, the family scattered into exile. What follows is a patient climb back. An amnesty lets a pregnant Livia return to Rome to rebuild the family name and protect the people she loves. Then the season leaps eleven years ahead, and the frightened girl is gone — now married to the powerful Gaius, navigating court secrets, plague-driven crises, rivals, and a cup of nightshade when nothing else will do. Every move costs her something private.
This Sky and MGM co-production hands antiquity to Kasia Smutniak's Livia and treats power as daily labour rather than birthright. A sharp character study for viewers who prefer political nerve to battlefield spectacle. Stream Domina Season 1 online on iFILM.
8 episodes
S1·E1Fall
Livia Drusilla loses everything in the Civil War as her father and husband find themselves defeated and forced into exile.
S1·E2Rise
When an amnesty is declared, a pregnant Livia returns to Rome to rebuild her family fortunes and save her friend.
S1·E3Family
Eleven years on, Livia is married to the powerful Gaius, and is pregnant again. Yet, she does not feel entirely secure.
S1·E4Secrets
Livia's marriage to Gaius is compromised when she learns that she can't bear him any children.
S1·E5Plague
Gaius' illness causes a political crisis and reveals the weakness of Livia's position without him, a problem she must solve.
S1·E6Nightshade
Livia has no choice but to eliminate Marcellus, who plans to kill her sons and exile her when he assumes Gaius' position.
S1·E7Treason
As Gaius' rivals taste blood in the water, Livia must outwit both them and her husband if the family is to be kept together.
S1·E8Happiness
As Livia tells her sons about their role in her Mission, the truth behind her part in Marcellus' death threatens to come out.
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