Spartacus: Blood and Sand

After artistic duds like the TV version of "Crash," Starz may have found its destination series in Spartacus. This might prove to be the not-at-all-guilty pleasure of the season.

Given that Spartacus does not stumble in what it sets out to do, one's objections to the show, if objections one has, will be moral, or simple matters of taste, to the extent that those two concerns can actually be separated.

It's deliciously, marvelously bad, and I was helpless in its grip. It's a long way from Kubrick, but what isn't?

After Spartacus blows most of its special-effects budget on the pilot, it settles into a not-bad sword-and-sandal genre series, a la "Xena" or "Hercules."

Though the violence is designed to be gorgeous, like a graphic novel, it doesn’t have the pacing of a comic book. The creators of Spartacus: Blood and Sand seem a little too enamored of their ability to sketch a vast Thracian tableau, a fight scene, or a coliseum full of cheering CGI Italians.

If you're a teenage boy who loved "300"--or any other demographic who loved "300"--you may well dig all the digitized, slow-motion blood splurts, the abundant nudity (albeit with some of the full frontal coming from male characters as well as female) and the stylized, computer-generated backgrounds. But stay far away if none of those things make you say "Hells yeah!"

Spartacus is an exercise in some of the worst writing, acting and directing you'll ever see (or not).

My favorite show of all time. A very large "300" clone movie got cancelled and this show got the crew. That's why the production value is higher than it should be. I didn't like the first episode but after the whole season it can easily be forgiven. This show is so good it's fun to watch it with people who haven't seen it just to see their reactions. It has everything. Action, gore, love, lust, tragedy, betrayal, brotherhood, redemption. Andy Whitfield is Spartacus and no one else.

Score: 6.7 One of the first TV Series i watched online without being something my parents showed me. It was honestly awsome, i remember the main actor died in the middle of it? something like that, it was kinda weird afterwards but overrall it was very egnaging

Imagine Game of Thrones without the production and writing and you have the sex crazed, violence-prone Spartacus.

Very bad. The graphic effects are terrible. The acting is overdramatic. I couldn't complete season 1.

I'm a big fan of Roman era movies so the subject matter is not the problem. This is an appallingly bad series. I bought the entire series but have never made it past the 2nd disc. They apparently thought that gratuitous nudity (nonstop **** and ****) and blood gushing gore would make up for the single note plot, boringly obvious storyline, atrocious acting and scriptwriting which was seemingly targeting 12 yr Olds with low IQ. Endless hours of exactly the same thing. I'm a warrior slave, your a Roman, I hate you so we'll stab each other, after which I'll go to the orgy, get drunk, wake up tomorrow and repeat, and repeat, and repeat. Over and Neverending. The practically non existent character development is so bad you don't care what happens to anyone because they're just wooden overbaked caricatures of people, rather than actual people. If mindless, nonstop nudity, sex, and extreme violence is your thing, this is your movie. If your hoping for anything resembling historical Rome, and the lives of the people who lived there, your out of luck.