SPARTACUS: WAR OF THE DAMNED EPISODE 5 'BLOOD BROTHERS'

Well that didn't take long for everything to go to hell did it? After last week's traumafest that involved the uncomfortable slaughter of Roman hostages and the bone popping good times of decimation -- the real wear has begun. Caesar has thrown a wrench into Spartacus' plans by infiltrating himself behind enemy lines and helping Crassus' army gain access into the walls of the rebel occupied city. Todd Lasance once again brings it with another powerful performance that steals the episode.

There's a great moment later on with Caesar and a certain someone who tries to weasel his way into the Roman soldier's good graces once he discovers the truth. Remember that woman who died in Caesar's arms last episode? She was avenged. Big time… And it was awesome. While Crixus begins to rally the rebels towards his motives of kill everyone and kill everyone right now, Spartacus goes nuts and lets the remaining hostages go. Look for the great scene where someone is peeing onto the stream of captives as they leave the gates. Now Spartacus is just really giving Crixus a metaphorical boss wedgie.

Spoilers Ahead

Crassus is having a lot of sex scenes lately with his slave woman. It's funny that he's so in love with this person and yet he's fighting against her very cause to be free. Crassus has been having one sexy, greasy time in his war tent so prior to this week I was really starting to wonder what his battle tactics were. He's a gross dude. His son is in the mourning period after his manboy was beaten to death by giant spoons. The kid does something really awkward by the end of the episode though and we're welcomed to the rapevengeance that the series has been known to pull out every once in a while.

There's an amazing twist later on that was so genius that I was very much like Crixus – confused caveman stares abound. Spartacus let the Romans go so that they would tell Crassus that their forces were divided. That's why Spartacus was being so kind to the people he was holding hostage. Crixus is necessarily dumbfounded but it doesn't matter anymore – rebel high-five and let the asskicking flank begin! Yeah! One thing Spartacus didn't plan for however – the greasy pirate backstabbers.

After making his way to the flank, Spartacus is betrayed by the pirates and the invasion begins. Caesar lets his Roman flag fly and joins the battle which is by far the most intense of the season yet. I was holding my breath for a record 15 minutes or so because I was certain Agron was about to meet his end. This was the craziest episode of the season yet and I'm going to be really, really traumatized by series' end. According to showrunner Steven DeKnight it only gets worse…Way, way worse. Awesome…

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Spartacus: War of the Damned "Decimation"

– Both Spartacus and Crassus have now lost the loyalty of a top lieutenant. These guys really ought to commiserate over a jug of vino sometime.
– Caesar undercover nicely paid off two subtle, curious groundwork details laid earlier this season: The strange, precise mutilation to which he subjected his nether-regions in the premiere (to cover for an absent slave brand), and his offhand explanation in “Men of Honor” that Crassus would not let him trim his locks. See? His appearance isn’t just for Thor-eseque sexiness—it’s for strategic Thor-esque sexiness!
– Caesar tells Nemetes he’s “had the displeasure” of Cilicians’ company. At least this part of his story is true; the real Caesar was briefly the prisoner of Cilician pirates in 75 B.C. (four years before the events of this season).
– Once again I loved Spartacus and Laeta’s brief interaction, especially where she laid out exactly why Crassus poses a legitimate threat. I admire the show’s willingness to yank the rug out from under these two a lot sooner than I expected, although part of me still wants to see them blow off these ingrates and run away to the Alps.
– Likely Sybil thought that ratting out the refugees would prove her worth, not least to her crush Gannicus. Little could she know that he, lone among all Spartacus’s followers, would have preferred to avoid the very outcome she triggered. Womp-womp.
– Agron’s still nursing a grudge against Castus, the Cilician who put the moves on Nasir. I’m not too thrilled with this sort of one-note soapiness expanding into a multi-episode arc just to give Agron something to do.
– As commenters have pointed out, the historic Crixus and a group of followers are recorded as splintering from Spartacus toward the end of the Third Servile War. It’s uncertain whether this action was due to strategic or factional concerns, but it seems the writers have chosen to follow the latter interpretation.
– “The most fearsome weapons yet exposed.”
– “A position not commanded from upon back.” PHRASING, Tiberius!
– “Return to drink and whores or part from this world.” Naevia shares some good advice for any situation, really.
– “We are not Romans. Nor shall we become them by acts of unnecessary cruelty.”
– “Your lesson well learned. Imperator.”
– Body Count: I counted 16, likely dozens more off-screen, including the four other victims of the decimation. On the on-screen basis, 182 for the season.

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Spartacus: War Of The Damned episode 2 : Wolves At The Gate

This week's Spartacus presents the lead's moral ambiguity and prepares the ground for future episodes. Here's James' review...


This review contains spoilers.


3.2 Wolves at the Gate


After a strong opener, this episode was a little more by-the-numbers. At least as far asSpartacus goes. That still meant it was densely-plotted, with strong characterisation and fantastic action, but in the words of Peggy Lee – is that all there is?


Don't get me wrong, there was a lot to like, but much of this episode seemed to be heading towards the flatly inevitable conclusion. Did we ever think Spartacus and his rebels wouldn't take the town of Sinuessa? When he promises something in one episode, we know by now that it'll happen in the next, and that made this plot thread pretty much drama-free, leaving the court of Crassus to pick up the slack in that department.


One thing that was interesting about the invasion of Sinuessa, to be fair, was the extent to which Spartacus and his rebels have become the monsters the Romans fear. Scenes of Spartacus walking through the town, meeting its inhabitants and taking their measure were compelling purely because we knew what was to come – and when we see the citizens he encountered slain under his directive, we're forced to wonder whether their freedom is actually worth such brutality.


He tries to be good, of course, and his commands to stop the killing once they'd succeeded certainly try to paint him as the bigger man – but let's face it, no-one who orders the slaughter of women and children for the crimes of their society is objectively in the right, and the show doesn't shy away from presenting us with both sides of the equation and letting us draw our own conclusions.


Meanwhile, Crassus does what Romans do best: administration. To be honest, the power struggle Tiberius went through was fairly weak, compared to the Shakespearean manipulations we saw in the previous seasons, and the introduction of Julius Caesar did little to improve the situation. Historically speaking, Caesar and Crassus' alliance will, in time, lead to Caesar becoming the ruler of the wider Roman Empire long after Spartacus' rebellion has been crushed. I'm unclear whether Caesar is being introduced at a historically accurate point, but his characterisation in this series as a mash-up of Tyler Durden and Kurt Cobain makes him a little too cartoonish, especially set against the more complex and nuanced Crassus. And we can only guess at what was supposed to be going on with that slave girl and that knife and all that blood, but frankly, I'd rather not think about it too much.


As for subtext, one thread worth grabbing onto is that of the similarities between Spartacus and Crassus. We saw some of this last episode, but in this one both find themselves trying to satisfy various lieutenants while also pursuing a wider cause a little less dispassionately than they probably should be. Another thread harks back to last episode, where Gannicus asked Spartacus where all this would end – not, apparently, with the killing of innocent Romans (such that they exist).


But in the end, Wolves at the Gate was an episode that put most of its effort into setting up the series' ongoing subplots – Crassus' relationships with his family and employees, Spartacus' relationships with his deputies (and victims), the introduction of new characters, the clearing away at least of one old one – and all that focus on subplot really showed in the episode's weak main plot.


Still, experience tells us it'll pay off in the end, and for all the inevitability of this episode's conclusion, it was still a fun battle to watch even if you didn't quite feel it as hard as in other episodes. So a good episode, though not a great one, but it was weak for the right reason: setting up future greatness. As problems go, we can live with that.

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