The 'Domina' Season 2 Trailer Shows Livia's Fight for Rome Is Far From Over

Although most people with a passing familiarity with history are probably aware of Gaius Octavius Caesar (or his more famous name of Augustus), far fewer people know who his wife was. And while technically, Livia Drusilla is Augustus's third wife, she had almost as far-reaching an impact on history as her husband did (though she gets a lot less credit.) Also known as Julia Augusta, she rose to become the first Empress of Rome and wielded vast influence in her own right, not to mention counting the next four emperors as her direct descendants.

But streamer MGM+ is trying to change all that with its historical drama Domina, which chronicles the rise of Livia Drusilla from her early days on the wrong side of the war following Julius Caesar's assassination to her return to Rome a decade later, her determination to reclaim everything she lost, and her subsequent marriage to Octavian, which went on to last for 51 years.

And in Season 2, which finally arrive this July over two years after its first premiered, it certainly sounds like the old adage is true: Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown. Atop a fractious empire and a dysfunctional dynasty, she must fight to preserve her marriage to Gaius and find a way to seat one of her sons on the throne, as new and old rivals jockey for position in a world where it’s impossible to know who to trust.