It was like a hyper-masculine soap opera filled with drama and perpetual backstabbing. One scene might feature an intense human decapitation, then cut to a full-frontal sex scene.
Inspired by actual historical events, it makes everything brutal and graphic (and I mean that in every sense of the word). The series leaned heavily on the 300 style of visual effects and over-the-top gory violence. Two more seasons followed before they completed the show in 2013. Sadly, Whitfield succumbed to his illness and the character of Spartacus was re-cast with Liam McIntyre. It featured many of the same characters but took place right before Spartacus arrived in Rome. To keep public interest in the series while Whitfield recovered, Starz did a prequel series called Spartacus: Gods of the Arena. After the first season, Whitfield became ill. It premiered in 2010 and stared Andy Whitfield as the unnamed Thracian who was sold into slavery and became the gladiator known as Spartacus. DeKnight created the original Spartacus television show for Starz.
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