Spartacus tv series
What is most distressing is there isn’t the slightest exaggeration in anything that I’ve described here. At times the head of an actor will freeze while the blood continues to spurt across the screen. At the climax of the big gladiator scene in the pilot episode, blood surges in a tidal wave behind the head of Spartacus, washing across the entire screen. There are times that blood is seen merely flying across the screen with no discernible source. We see blood gushing from severed limbs, from busted noses, from slit throats, from decapitated heads.
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We see blood that has been left to dry on on sweaty skin and unshaved stubble. One could also speak here of violence, but the violence in Spartacus, which is unrelenting, almost always gives way to blood, as if the point of the violence is to generate a severed artery. So what descriptive terms spring to mind when thinking of Spartacus? Was blood eve intended to be the major component of any series? In fact, there is so much blood that it is hard not to think of the famous Black Knight scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail, in which copius amounts of blood spew from one severed arm and leg after another in absurd quanities. Instead of great acting, great writing, and compelling production values, with Spartacus you can’t think of much beyond nudity, the irresponsible use of CGI, cardboardish writing, and blood. If you were to ask someone what words first spring to mind after watching the two debut episodes, they would not be the ones that you would associate with great television.