![]() ![]() I rewound that scene a few times just to watch it play out. Crassus is speaking to both of them, and they are answering him - but Crassus is completely oblivious to the fact that Tiberius and Caesar are simultaneously having their own verbal sparring match against each other, while still advancing their three-way discussion. Also, the dialogue has the added virtue of being clever and well-written: for example, there's a scene in the final season (don't worry, no spoilers) in which Marcus Crassus is having a discussion with his son Tiberius and a young Julius Caesar. Yes, the dialogue is absurd and nobody ever spoke like that, but the actors deliver it with such unrestrained gusto and are clearly having such a blast making the show that you can't help but get swept up in it. And damn, did the show hook me quickly after that. However, I had seen John Hannah (Batiatus) and Lucy Lawless (Lucretia) in other things before, so I stuck with it. Nothing special a lot of gory violence, graphic sex and nudity, and colourful baroque mock-Shakespearean dialogue so over-the-top that I couldn't tell whether the acting was good or not. For the first two episodes, that's exactly what I got. I figured some swords-and-sandals would fit the bill in the meantime. I started watching this very belatedly in early 2019 while waiting for the final season of Game of Thrones. ![]()
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