Watch the boldest series on television: Spartacus

Director: Rick Jacobson

Writers: Steven S. DeKnight, Steven S. DeKnight (creator)
Stars: Andy Whitfield, John Hannah and Manu Bennett
Original channel: Starz
Original airing: January 22, 2010

Spartacus is a TV-series with graphic violence and explicit sex which started in 2010 with the title Spartacus: Blood and Sand. In the pilot episode the Romans convince the Thracians to join them in the war in defeating the Getae, a tribe who have been burning Thracian villages to the ground for generations. However, one of the traicians refuses to join the battle and reblles against the Romans but loses the fight and finds himself enslaved along with his wife Sura. The Thracian is transported to Capua where he is forced to fight against gladiators in the arena. However, he manages to survive and embraces the name of Spartacus that was given to him from Senator Albinius. 

Spartacus has managed to preserve his life and becomes a property of Quintus Batiatus which house is a gladiator training school. In time he will become a God of the arena but the only thing he will search for is his wife and vengeance.

The series remind us of the 300 movie with the bloody graphic combat action and slow motion cameras in action scenes. Spartacus has 3 seasons and is revealing us the roman way of life with conspiracy, affairs, sex and death. Unfortunately the actor from the first season Andy Whitfield dies after the first season from cancer. In the second season the series return with retrospection of the house of Batiatus and along with it with his previous God of the arena.

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