Guillaume Le Mière

Honestly, just the fact that all roman characters are speaking Latin puts this show in my list of all time favorites. Scenario is well written, actors are impressive, I have not found any historical glitch... It's pretty good. The only big thing is that there are too many worthless dialogues and substories that seem to serve as fillers. When you only have six episodes of 30-40 minutes, you really don't have time to waste with irrelevant substories, empty dialogue, sex scenes etc. It's also a little sad that the show focuses so much on Roman imperialism, cynicism and cruelty when it's far from being the whole story. Very little emphasis is put on Roman assimilation and expansion tactics, except for one dialogue where a Reik tries to negotiate a road, and it didn't even come from the Romans. The show puts too much emphasis on victimization to be intellectually honest. Pretty good entertainment overall though. The bar could be higher, but if you just want some thrilling and bloodshed in a fairly realistic setting, it does the job!

I honestly did not know that it was possible for a show to start mindblowingly good and finish this bad. The first season was amazing, season two and three were good not great, the last season was mediocre at best. That was a waste of time.

This was just impressive. At the beginning you think it's going to be just another horror movie with some goofy ghost moving things around and some awkward half baked jump scares for an hour until you have a violent scene at the end. I thought I had it all figured out and was ready to be bored. Oh boy, I was sooooo wrong. It's an incredible ride, though I felt like the end left me unsatisfied. They should have added another 10-15 minutes to conclude things. It was the best entrée ever but there was no dessert, losing a star for this reason.

Really great show! At first I thought "Wait, African and Asian people during the middle age in England, sounds audacious!" All in all, I really enjoyed the diversity in this show. It's not something that I usually pay a lot of intention to, but the way they broke the racial homogeneity during the legend of King Arthur just added to the fantasy, and I have to say that I'm glad that they've been that provocative and to let other races play their role in this rather cool story. It was a nice surprise since I thought the historical mistakes could be a red flag of poorly written scenario, but it wasn't the case at all. It was a great artistic provocation that was just the first step towards breaking the box when it comes to writing a cool story. The plot is great, the twists are fantastic, actors are talented, and the futhark runes on some Viking's skulls are spot on! I have to say, it was refreshing. Too many shows nowadays are trying to compensate poorly written scenarios with sex scenes every damn five minutes, but this show stayed authentic, qualitative, and provocative from beginning to end. Home run for me. I'm super excited for the season 2! Hopefully covid-19 won't make us wait to long, but safety first, I can wait! Amazing job, I am impressed, my deep congratulations to everyone involved! SPOILER: ---------------- However it's not a straight 10/10. I'd give it 9.8, because at some point the grey monk touches a leaf and it doesn't turn his hand green, but it does later on. So there is a small hole in the writing there. PS: Big UP on the actress playing Nimue for not falling into naked scenes. Talented people don't need that and I hope she won't get pressured into doing it on season 2!

Netflix shattered the dreams of horror fans to have anything truly good for this decade by not renewing this show. Marianne is the best thing that ever happened in the world of Horror. They managed to give me a little fright, and that did not happen in ages. F you 2020, F you. Shame on Netflix!!