Spartacus
TV Show • 2010 • Action
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Spartacus is an American television series inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus, a Thracian gladiator who from 73 to 71 BCE led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic departing from Capua.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Glaber slaps his wife Illithyia in the face
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In season 3 (aka Spartacus: Vengeance), a goat is sacrificed via knife to throat. It bleeds out and is heard gasping/suffering.
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Does a horse die?
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In the beginning of "Spartacus: War of the Damned" during a battle sequence, a horse is shown to be stabbed by one of the Romans' spears. The horse is presumed to have bled to death—albeit off-screen—afterward.
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Are there bugs?
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Maggots are shown
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Yes. A female character in season two is raped onscreen, and in season theee a man is raped. Genitals aren’t shown but it is still brutal and intended as revenge/power move. As we know, rape is about power rather than sex and the rapes on the show make sure to emphasize this. It is definitely not portrayed as sexy, but degrading.
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Yes multiple characters both male and female. Many slaves both male and female are forced to have sex with Romans and other slaves for entertainment. There are many other on and off screen rapes.
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Is rape mentioned?
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Mentioned frequently. In season two a woman is raped and it goes on much longer than I would have preferred. In the final season a man is raped, also very ugly. When it aired and they showed content warnings, I remember that both episodes had a warning there was rape in the episode. Not sure if it is streaming, I have the entire series on Blu-ray but if you stream it, there still should be content warnings of rape shown.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
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One male character rapes another. Later the rapist makes some snarky comments alluding to the rape directly to the victim. Not sure exactly what “jokes about sexual assault on men” specifically consist of, but thought it was worth mentioning.
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone restrained?
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The gladiator characters are slaves (except for whoever is champion at the time). Chains, shackles, several characters are restrained with arms overheard when they are viciously whipped. Characters are held down and sexually assaulted.
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There is at least one scene where a nameless Roman soldier is stabbed in the eye, very graphically.
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Is there excessive gore?
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Absolutely. Once again, it would take me at least an hour to list the episodes. We see brutal gore including, but not limited to:
-someone who loses a fight to the death and then the skin on their face is ripped away, which the winner wears as a trophy
-1/3 of the front of someone’s head is sliced off with a sword, their brain slides almost completely out of the missing part of their front skull
-a pregnant woman stabbed in her uterus by someone to kill her unborn baby
-graphic disembowlments, guts falling out to the ground in a pile
-someone gets their head cut off, but it takes the person doing it several hacks, head hangs to one side as a great deal of blood sprays everywhere
-someone’s head is smashed onto a marble floor until you can see their brains, skull fragments, eye knocked out of socket, blood everywhere
Just a few off the top of my head. You will need a strong stomach to watch this show, there is gore in it that if it were in a movie, would have never gotten an R rating and gone right to being unrated. If gore bothers you, I recommend watching something else. The Spartacus series is fantastic and addictive and entertaining, but one of the goriest TV series I’ve even seen. Holds nothing back at all.
-someone who loses a fight to the death and then the skin on their face is ripped away, which the winner wears as a trophy
-1/3 of the front of someone’s head is sliced off with a sword, their brain slides almost completely out of the missing part of their front skull
-a pregnant woman stabbed in her uterus by someone to kill her unborn baby
-graphic disembowlments, guts falling out to the ground in a pile
-someone gets their head cut off, but it takes the person doing it several hacks, head hangs to one side as a great deal of blood sprays everywhere
-someone’s head is smashed onto a marble floor until you can see their brains, skull fragments, eye knocked out of socket, blood everywhere
Just a few off the top of my head. You will need a strong stomach to watch this show, there is gore in it that if it were in a movie, would have never gotten an R rating and gone right to being unrated. If gore bothers you, I recommend watching something else. The Spartacus series is fantastic and addictive and entertaining, but one of the goriest TV series I’ve even seen. Holds nothing back at all.
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Is there body horror?
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Depends on your definition of body horror. It’s not like a body horror movie with transformations like The Fly remake or other David Cronenberg movies, but people do get horrible injured. To me, it’s a stretch to say there’s body horror-in one scene a gladiators guts start to poke out of wounds in his belly and he has to try to push his guts back in with his hands.
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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“Spartacus Vengeance”, Episode 7 “Sacramentum” (8:25-8:46; a female slave is publicly crucified after being wrongly accused, her screams of pain can be heard till the 8:57 mark)
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Does a head get squashed?
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People cave other people’s heads in with rocks and I think a brick. In a very memorable season one scene, one character becomes enraged and smashes another’s head repeatedly into a marble floor. Very gory, brains and blood and skull fragments and and an eye graphically scattered around the white marble floor in a radius. I have a strong stomach and it still horrified me.
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Is someone burned alive?
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An amphitheatre is set on fire while it is full, and many characters are implied to have died through fire, although all of them are unnamed and we never see them being burned.
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Is there decapitation?
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Yes, so many times I lost count. Some are in graphic slow motion. At least once, it takes a character several painful hacks to sever the head. In every case, blood sprays everywhere like a fountain, many times heads are shown rolling.
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Is there a hanging?
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One of the male characters hangs himself after being subjected to physical and sexual abuse
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Multiple people beaten to death by rocks. And their heads/bodies are crushed into gory pancakes by the time the scene ends.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Someone is entombed alive in a concrete pillar while the new gladiator arena is built. They are standing up and bricked in. Needless to say, they die in there. Skip if claustrophobic.
Shown in the prequel miniseries, final episode.
Shown in the prequel miniseries, final episode.
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Is there amputation?
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In NUMEROUS battle scenes, enemies get limbs hacked off in brutal, bloody ways.
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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There are multiple scenes where characters choke each other
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Is someone stabbed?
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Literally too many times to count, in many episodes more than once. If you don’t like to see graphic gruesome violence and gore, this show is probably not a good match for you.
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Does a kid die?
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A teenager is stabbed to death and an adult who purposely falls off the cliff is carrying a newborn baby therefore both being killed
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Yes, and more than one. Very high body count, especially in the final season. Characters you care about WILL die. In fact, most of them.
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About 5 parent deaths. Varro and his wife Aurelia have a son and both are killed. Batiatus' father is poisoned to death. Calavius and his wife, who also have a son, both die.
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Does someone cheat?
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Varro pays for a prostitute whilst having a wife. Lucretia sleeps with Crixus behind her husbands back. Ilithyia sleeps with Spartacus and Glaber sleeps with Seppia whilst married. Crassus cheats on his wife with his slave Kore. Gannicus cheats on Saxa with Sibyl.
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Is there a shower scene?
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if you count roman baths with lots of nudity, then yes
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Are there ghosts?
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Spartacus sees multiple visions of his wife. He also sees a ghost of Varro.
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Does someone vomit?
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S1 E1. Brief shot of someone vomiting when Spartacus wakes up in a boat. The montage has someone being ill.
S1E6. Montage scene at 40mins of all the gladiators drinking and having sex. You see and hear someone vomit. It’s only the once and very quick.
S1E6. Montage scene at 40mins of all the gladiators drinking and having sex. You see and hear someone vomit. It’s only the once and very quick.
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A character kills himself as a result of sexual assault. Another character throws herself off a cliff with a baby in her arms.
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There is a scene were a character cuts herself in order to use the blood for pretending another character has a miscarriage.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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More than one character. If I get specific then it will spoil major plot points. Many character’s experience trauma and substantial tragedies, then flash back on it later or have a nightmare about it.
I will say one female character is sold into brutal sex slavery were she was raped, beaten, and tortured many times. She recovers eventually but it takes many episodes before she will even let her lover touch her again. Absolutely has PTSD and it is hard to watch as the actress is very believable and character is likable.
Most of it is in the second season. Just to avoid confusion they show began with season one, then they did a prequel miniseries while the lead actor was getting cancer treatment. So, not the prequel season which aired second, I mean the season that is subtitled “Vengaence” and picks up where season one left off.
I will say one female character is sold into brutal sex slavery were she was raped, beaten, and tortured many times. She recovers eventually but it takes many episodes before she will even let her lover touch her again. Absolutely has PTSD and it is hard to watch as the actress is very believable and character is likable.
Most of it is in the second season. Just to avoid confusion they show began with season one, then they did a prequel miniseries while the lead actor was getting cancer treatment. So, not the prequel season which aired second, I mean the season that is subtitled “Vengaence” and picks up where season one left off.
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Pregnancy
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Technically. A pregnant woman is stabbed in the stomach. She however survives.
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Are there abortions?
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One character considers an abortion but doesn't go through with it. Another character states that she has forced slaves to take abortifacients.
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Does an LGBT person die?
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Two characters in the first season, Barca and Pietro, die -- Barca is stabbed and Pietro kills himself. However, the TV show does subvert the 'Bury Your Gays' trope in the final season when the only two characters from the main cast left alive are both gay.
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Does the black guy die first?
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No, but towards the end of the "Spartacus: Vengeance" season finale, a Black main character dies.
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There is an implied incestuous relationship between two young nobel brother and sister, where they are shown to kiss on the lips and the brother wants to return to "loving embrace".
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Is there sexual content?
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There are multiple instances of fairly graphic sexual content, as expected for the rating. There are a lot of shots of fully nude people, men and women, including full-frontal male nudity, in both sexual and non-sexual contexts.
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Does it have a sad ending?
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It has a bittersweet ending -- most of the main characters are dead, but some survive and go off to build a better life.
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Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
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The show is set pre-Christianisation of Rome and the creation of Santa.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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There are no cars.
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There is a huge amount of blood and gore -- if this is a trigger for you, there is really no way to watch this show because it is a massive feature in every episode.
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