the most bloody - violent - sexual - TV series I have ever seen...
Even watching the trailer gives you an idea of what to come:
i was quite surprised when i saw the first episode.
How can so much violence and sexuality be on mainstream TV?
But: I could not look away. Something took me in its ban. Something made me keep on watching.
Summarizing some of the reviews I have read:
"Spartacus: Blood and Sand" hopes to appeal to your bloodlust and the other, more common lust. Anyone who has a problem with violence, nudity, sex, profanity or anything else Rated R-worthy should tune into USA instead
The characters make proclamations such as that the sacred ground they stand upon is watered with the tears of blood. Seriously, the “tears of blood?” Or you get to watch a woman wander throughout the gladiators with unrestrained lust. After watching one of the gladiators be made to have sex with a slave girl, doggy style and as explicitly as possible without hitting hard core porn, the woman salivates as she asks, “Can you make him do it again?”
The first episode alone keeps up a brisk pace: Open with a gladiator fight, move to a sex scene six minutes in, follow that with a bigger battle, a fist fight, two more sex scenes and ... well, you get the idea. If bodies are a-grappling, "Spartacus" is where it's happening.
"Spartacus" is a rousing, addictive show that doesn't tax with too much moral complexity. It doesn't just try to reel us in with insane amounts of violence and sex, but also to appeal to our most basic, idealized views of how the world should work. True love, justice and freedom will win out, dammit, and Spartacus is our boy to make them happen.
I guess you get the picture.
But seriously, I am normally not one of these guys who like stuff like that. I am not driving a big car, I am not going to the gym every other day, I am not even getting in fights with other people.
But something in this cocktail of sex, brutality and stupidity is attracting me.
Is it the simpleness? Is it the plainness of "just killing" , black and white, doing - not asking?
For sure, it has something liberating. Not having to think.
Could it be that this portraits a dumb, attracting form of "being in the moment".
Being present every moment, or dying?
Or am I just making all of this up to justify my own lust for blood and sex?
Oh, if you got interested, i watched it online. The quality is poor, but its for free, and you can watch it whenever and wherever you want:
Watch Spartacus: Blood And Sand Online Season 1
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