He is not Spartacus, actually

I have started watching Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Everyone told me it was bad. And it is. Really, really bad. It's like a porn director got hold of a pulp gladiator script and a big visual effects budget. Or it's like Rob Tappert finally got a show on a channel where he could show naked, oiled, writhing women to his heart's content. (And naked, oiled, writhing men, too.)

I mean what can you really say about a show that, every time it shows a crowd, there's a woman baring her breasts? Where the Vis FX guys use CGI spurts of blood the way the sound designers on Xena used whooshes? Where it has an episode titled "Whore"? And by the way, so amused that Michael Hurst directed that episode (if you don't know who that is, see icon).

( Speaking of Whore... )