Barbarians (2020)

What face paint? Oh that face paint, oh well, i wasn't there so i don't mind

I'm not that invested in that specific historic event, that i care that much if they do things 100% historical correct but rather if it is entertaining and atleast the first ep so far is

I just watched eps 1. Any one here actually speak Latin or was it just pseudo Latin?  The face paint reminds me of that Arthur film where the barbarians used blue. woad? Its just Goth makeup? ( literally and figuratively)

I finished it. It's middling. Certainly not bad but I'd not be upset if it didn't get a second season.

well I have now watched the full 6 eps and thought it a decent show with a good battle at the end. I was starting to think from the previous eps that the show  had such a low budget they couldn't afford more than 6 Roman costumes lol I can't see why they would want a season 2. In general a rather nice interpretation & explanation of that terrible real life disaster that changed the Roman empire for ever

Varus, give me back my legions!

Actually I thought it was reasonably historically accurate and did well with a fairly limited budget. I enjoyed it, well what good honest Anglo Saxon wouldn't enjoy seeing the bullies of the world get butchered? I'm a bit of an ancient history lover and the Romans loosing something usually cheers me up. Actually historically I rather despise Roman culture for its extreme Patriarchy, casual brutality and its sense of innate superiority. Around 18000 Romans died at Teutoburg, I don't feel sorry for 'em.

There is some evidence that some Germanic tribes or a tribe or segments of tribes fought mostly naked, preferably at night and used black shields whilst dying their bodies black and would use terror tactics where possible. In ancient warfare most casualties happened after the battle was lost, the side that broke first being cut down as they ran after discarding weapon and shield. Hence the old Spartan saying 'come back with this shield or upon it'.

I'm pretty sure I did see what looked like typical stirrups from around the 12th+ century CE on the horses but I would guess that's because people these days can't ride horses safely without them rather than an oversight. When where and how the use of stirrups became common in Western Europe is a matter of some debate. Suffice to say that the horse was domesticated around 4500 BCE and the first evidence for any kind of stirrup is from India in around 100 BCE.

So, no, I don't think the show was taking liberties with the body paint or masks. Your a superstitious society fighting another superstitious society. You understand the use of fear as a weapon. Do the maths.

So yeah, all in all not a bad show. Didn't watch any trailer (I never do, for anything), just dived in and binge watched it. The love triangle was tedious but a solid 3.8/5.

It's just not going to happen Never seen the point of 'em, never will. Edit: it's kind of like I don't get news from social media and never will.

I never heard or read this before.

I find trailers quite valuable - it's not a perfect, but a good decision making tool.

tl;dr: this AI sums up research papers in a sentence so you can decide which papers are worth reading; trailers help me to decide where to spend my TV watching time.

You can remove that first line. Just those both lines alone don't make much sense.

And "smile" is not the same as    

Don't care about the historical accuracy, this looks epic and also that actress plays her role perfectly.

thanks for reminding of the show I had completely forgotten didn't kno2 season 2 had arrived