Spartacus: War of the Damned Season 3

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May the late Andy, R.I.P. he shall not be forgotten. An excellent series. I remember seeing the trailer for this series & saying wow spartacus, not a long time after the 300 made me proud & that they left a blood line through 480 B.C. till the end of time!. Watch the first episode of this & we shall speak again! In the same cinematography as the 300 style. The real Spartacus was born in the Greek province of thrace, in those days it was a common name, it derived from the respect of SPARTA . Hence the name. He was put into slavery from the age of 9!. & then working like an animal in the salt mines. Then his story, a story that changed & Put the dangerous question into mankind’s mind’s Die on your feet than live on your knees?. In the ROMAN SENATE THERE IS A 2D sculpture that depicts, Spartacus & the free on one side & the Roman centurions on the other. It says below, NEVER FORGET SPRTACUS. Brilliant series a must have!. Blood, beautiful women, Hot action!

– Antreas

While I preferred the first two seasons and the prequel, I was just as engaged in this season. I think the only drop-off was knowing that it was the final season so while watching, I kept thinking “all these characters are going to die.” Despite that notion, it was still full of surprises and much of the premise is fairly accurate to history (at least what we know of Spartacus.)

“Spartacus: War of the Damned” picks up where season two left off. It has been about one year since the beginning of the slave rebellion initiated by the gladiators and slaves who overthrew the House of Batiatus. As the rebellion swells, Spartacus, Crixus, Agron, and Gannicus agree they must find a larger base for their band of slaves. In Rome, the senate desperately names Marcus Crassus leader of the Army against Spartacus. Crassus enlists Gaius Julius Caesar into his army, along with Crassus’ repulsive son, Tiberius.

After Spartacus and his men take their city, they seek assistance from a gang of local pirates. While meeting these pirates outside city walls, Tiberius leads an attack against the rebels but fails to hold his ranks. Once rejoined with his father’s army, Crassus commands a display of decimation for Tiberius and his men. The slyness of Marcus Crassus begins to be revealed as he slips Caesar into the slave city as a spy pretended to be one of the rebels. Caesar causes upset among the slaves, driving Crixus and Spartacus to quarrels over their purposes.

Once the city falls at Crassus’ hand, the rebel army becomes trapped in a snowy ridge; they begin to freeze and starve. The rift between Spartacus and Crixus grows. Spartacus devises a plan to lead his army over the snowy ridge. Once escaped, the rebel army splits between Spartacus and Crixus.

As far as overviewing the season, I have elected to stop here because the final 2-3 episodes wrap up the entire series–well worth the watch. What I found most interesting about season 3 is the ability of the writers to truly expose the depth of the characters; those you may have previously thought you hated now become those you love, and vice versa. This is a show that stays in the mind long after it’s over because it is hard to definitively point to “what is right” and “what is wrong.” I also thought some of the battle ploys used by each army were genius, and surprises are plenty.

– JWolf

I love this series, pretty much all the way through. The blu-ray set includes a lot of nice commentary, which I love including some from Dan Feuerriegel (Agron) one of my favorite actors in the series. The little extras are nice, the menu is not obnoxious, has that stylized art and one of the better tracks from the series. Now if you are like me at all, in that you watched Season 1 and 2 while it ran but kind of fell off during 3 and 4 (I labeling 2 as the prequel) then let me tell you it’s worth going back. This series could have easily blown up or just fell apart after the tragedy with Andy, but they pulled it together really well. Three and Four are my favorite by far, and even though anyone who knows anything about this time period knows what happens to this rebellion, this was not an exercise in the inevitable. The writers, the actors, producers/directions, everyone involved merged history with vision and fantasy (not magic but imagination) into something that has just enough surprise, violence and sexiness to keep the series fresh all the way to the end. I am not even a lady hugely into blood and guts, gore in general… I don’t even watch horror films, but the way the violence fit into this world and time… sold me.

I was a big fan of the series Rome, and I feel like if Rome had the commitment, resource wise, to go four reasons that would have wrapped up nicely as this one did. A part of me almost feels like it could have gone one more season… but I also fear that could have been a tipping point because this was satisfactory all the way through.

– Tanya McHenry

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Actors: Liam McIntyre, Dustin Clare, Manu Bennett, Dan Feuerriegel
Writers: Steven S. DeKnight
Producers: Rob Tapert, Steven S. DeKnight, Sam Raimi, Joshua Donen
Format: NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English, Spanish
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Number of discs: 3
Studio: Anchor Bay
DVD Release Date: September 3, 2013
Run Time: 440 minutes