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Spartacus show11/12/2022 This was pre-Game of Thrones and Amazon’s Lord of the Rings deal. The first thing to understand is that Spartacus was a show of grand ambitions and a budget that simply couldn’t match them. But if you stuck around after the Red Wedding for the ‘plot’, this might be for you! If Game of Thrones wasn’t your cup of tea, then this probably isn’t either. There’s very upsetting violence and gore, sexual violence, a lot of profanity and nudity and torture and misogynistic language. ‘It gets really good later!’ I could have said, but I think in my heart of hearts, I knew from the second my friends didn’t give me the rapturous response I hoped for, that recommending this glorious clusterfuck of a show would be an uphill battle.īefore I go any further, I should acknowledge that Spartacus has some problematic shit. I eagerly showed it to my friends, who were a mixture of bemused and grossed the hell out. I first watched Spartacus when I was 18, pretty horny, and still awkward and repressed enough that Spartacus seemed like a REVELATION- everyone was banging on about The Wire, but here was MY grown up drama! (lol.) It’s full of gratuitous blood, gratuitous nudity, gratuitous violence, gratuitous sex, gratuitous swearing, and all around, is not a show for those with delicate sensibilities. The show tracks his rise from slave to Champion of the arena to fledging rebellion leader to Commander of an army of freed slaves defying an empire. Set in 73-71 BC, Spartacus tells the story of an unnamed Thracian, betrayed by Romans, given the name Spartacus and sold to a Gladiator training school. Spartacus was created by Sam Raimi, Rob Tapert and Steven DeKnight, and ran for three main seasons plus a prequel mini-season. My brothers download tastes and mine were very different-I wanted anime, he wanted MMA- but we found one show we both adored, probably thanks to all the tits and blood.Īnd Christ, there was a lot of tits and blood. I finally had a laptop that could go more than 30 minutes without overheating, and with my brothers assistance, I was getting into watching far too much TV. In June 2010, I was in my first year of Uni, Avatar was still showing in cinemas across the globe, and Christchurch was still standing. And to me, infuriating.īecause I know my answer, I always know it, and I know YOU WON’T GET IT. On first dates and at parties and at the end of bookclubs for the last decade(or at least before all the Coronavirus and poor decision making), the default-space-filler-question-du-jour is ‘So, been binging any good tv lately?’ If you’re at work, first: thank you for your essential service in these hard times, and second: maybe wait until you get home. Content Warning: This post contains quite a few pictures of stylised blood, some nudity, and a lot of ridiculous swearing.
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