Spartacus: Intense tale to freedom filled with blood and gore

Spartacus revolves around a gladiator who rebels against the mighty Rome in the pursuit of freedom for the slaves like him. The story is told in a hard-hitting manner that every episode in the series sees numerous spills of blood and act of torture by the brute.

As per the performance, the characters truly lived by the same without any shortcomings and the period setting did transcend on the screen to its fullest potential. The gladiator scenes were marvelously shot. The infamous erotic scenes for which the series is much known to stand up to its hype and often repeated irrespective of its need. Like the erotic scenes, the blood spills is too many that it could literally kill the remainder of empathy in the viewer's heart.

In the shortcomings, the series falls very much on the predicted lines offering no surprises except for a few. The climax was not what I expected yet it did move me by the way the story ended.

The series is divided into four chapters. The first chapter was truly incredible while the second which stood as a prequel to the first was decent though predictable. The third chapter bored the shit out of me while the fourth spooked interest with war strategies and tactics which made it fare just better than its predecessor. Yet, towards the end of the fourth, the mindset was literally like somebody kills the other and gets it over with.

~Overall, a decent series that would have been better if had it not fallen prey to predictability.

P.S. — In dire need of something of soothing and of feel-good vibe after been soaked into torture and treachery for the past few days.