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Xena overshadows Spartacus The most noticeable and uncontrollable crowd in the history of TV series is about to witness the most notorious warrior woman in the history of television. Crude, shameless and bloodthirsty spectators of Spartacus are gathered in Rome’s Colosseum to watch a woman with a strength of ten men fight. Xena takes the […]
Andy Whitfield: The One and Only Spartacus Andy Whitfield created a headstrong, loving and caring character who strived for more than mere survival. The debauchery and greed that surrounded him didn’t change who the captured and enslaved man really was. The love for his taken wife and high values that Spartacus holds keeps him […]
Lucy Lawless as Lucretia: always a man’s equal or better Batiatus’s equal in cunning, Lucretia sees every angle and wields power with a steel grip cased inside a kid glove. She is sexually voracious, taking the gladiator Crixus for a lover, but longs for a child she is so far unable to bear. Lucretia thinks […]
Spartacus: Vengeance – Time for a Blood-Bath In each and every season of Spartacus, creators explore, dissect, digest, and then feed their viewers with the darkest human emotions. Whether it’s lust, greed, pride, envy, gluttony, wrath, or sloth – in Spartacus, they all lead to immoral actions, hurting someone else in the process and setting […]
Arena in Ancient Rome Welcome to Ancient Rome. A time of majestic architectural wonders encompassing endless Roman pursuit of cruel and bloody pleasures. Slaves and gladiators aren’t citizens, they aren’t even human beings – merely tools for whatever ends Romans see fit. It’s a different era and different rules. No equality here, just power in […]
Lucy Lawless comeback as Lucretia in Spartacus: Gods of the Arena Spartacus – the critically-acclaimed series from Starz which combines sex, swords, sandals, more sex and lashings of gore, often gets a bad press for being historically inaccurate. But it has a great cast and some superb scriptwriting. It also sees the resurrection of that […]
And so The Journey begins… or ends? Welcome to the Four Lands that in 2016 had sprung out of Terry Brooks fantasy novels into the TV screens – The Shannara Chronicles. In this post-apocalyptic fantasy world, epic storylines unfold and magical beings in tight and eye-catching leather costumes follow their destiny to become the […]
Spartacus Saga: Posters from Every Season Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1. Torn from his homeland and the woman he loves, Spartacus is condemned to the brutal world of the arena where blood and death are primetime entertainment. But not all battles are fought upon the sands. Treachery, corruption, and the allure of sensual pleasures will […]
Before Spartacus: Gannicus Imagine how much better history class would be if the Starz cable network rewrote all major historical events. Wild-eyed groupies would’ve lined Revolutionary War battlefields, cheering and pulling their breasts out. The headshot that killed President Abraham Lincoln would’ve been a donkey punch delivered by an overly enthusiastic transgender dominatrix. And on that monumental day in July 1969, Neil […]
Spartacus: TV Series TV series was filmed in New Zealand and premiered in 2010 on Starz network (posters). Written by Steven S. DeKnight. It’s violent, but it is also captivating and compelling. The lead actor Andy Whitfield, unfortunately, died from complications of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in 2011 and was replaced by Liam McIntyre in subsequent incarnations of the […]