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7
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Critic Reviews
RogerEbert.comDec 2, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Tarabay is captivating throughout the series, which has expanded his character’s emotional depth, allowing the actor to tap into a sensitivity he previously lacked. With Davis, the two command the screen each time they’re on it, and soar when their characters are paired together. .... A spin-off series that not only honors the legacy of its predecessor, but one that, at times, rivals it.
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Dec 1, 2025
Season 1 Review:
While early episodes are heavier on “300”-style bloody fights and full-frontal male and female nudity – sometimes in the same scene! — the franchise’s delicious character drama amps up a few episodes into the season. This is the good stuff that makes “Spartacus” more than the sum of its arguably gratuitous parts.
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What's Alan Watching?May 4, 2026
Season 1 Review:
Spartacus is one of a kind. It is stylized and soapy and smart; it revels in brutality and bloodshed but it cannot be discounted as a cartoon (it actually does employ subtext, sometimes quite deftly). It nimbly avoids being a slog, but it does weigh the cost of the suffering caused by greed and exploitation as it surveys a decaying Rome on the verge of civil war (any resemblances to the times we’re enduring seem entirely intentional). This show is not for everyone, and would that more programs would try for that kind of unashamed distinctiveness. But the drama is for anyone willing to understand that Spartacus absolutely knows what it’s going for and why.
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Dec 1, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Tarabay plays him as if he is a shadow that has come into the light. Also coming out strong is Davis as Achillia, enslaved but willing to be a gladiatrix if it means freedom. .... In making Achillia a woman who is scarred both physically and emotionally, creator, showrunner/executive producer Steven S. DeKnight and his writers have fleshed out a character who could have just been a plot stunt into one that is a welcome addition to the storytelling.
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Dec 5, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Everything is a matter of taste, and most people know what they like. .... The series takes its melodrama seriously, with evident dedication to its staging its complicated fight scenes, of which there are many. .... And yet so extreme is it in its violence, and so resolute in its naughtiness, that I also find the series kind of hilarious.
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