Spartacus

This T.V. show deserves a picture (Make sure you click the picture so you can see the whole pic!!!!!!!!!!). There's this one move that Spartacus does in the show which I was trying to find online but couldn't find a picture of the scene so I chose this one. Any-who, Spartacus is a T.V. show about a man who was forced into slavery and sold off into becoming a Roman gladiator. His owner, or Dominus, renamed the main character to Spartacus and that's why it's called Spartacus. This show is a depiction of what it is believed life and human interactions was like for gladiators and people back in Roman times. It's is a highly uncensored T.V. show that has every emotion you could think of: lust, love, hate, sadness, fear, confidence, ambition, crave, bloodthirsty, etc. It has a lot of nudity, but that isn't why I watch this show.

So far that has only been one season of Spartacus because the main character is sick at the moment and they had to delay the creation of Season 2. And to put this show in lamons terms it's like the movie Gladiator had a baby with the movie 300 and they named their baby Spartacus. Though some of the graphics seem to be purposely terrible the show is INCREDIBLE.

After I saw the movie Gladiator I've always wanted to go back in time and see a gladiator event or even be a gladiator...even though the reality of being a gladiator is being a slave and pretty much being sent to your imminent death every event. Then came along the movie 300. And then I wanted to be an overly ripped Spartan that shredded Persian armies with just a few of my buddies and go down in history as an epic warrior. And then came Spartacus, the mix breed between Gladiator and 300 and I was like whooaa.

So, anyways this show seems like an incredible depiction of what was life like for a gladiator back in those times. And it's really bad ass. Xerxes from 300 is even a character in this show! ahahaha.

Before I sign off I urge you to go and watch this show, find it online, watch it on Netflix, rent it, rip it, do anything as long as you go and watch the season... But I do have one warning....The first Episode is TERRIBLE. I watched the first episode and almost wanted to hang myself because of how terrible they wrote their PILOT episode, the main episode that is supposed to get viewers hooked. So unless you can watch an hour of pure death and suffering ( and I don't mean the show has that...you will be the one suffering and enduring pure death) then skip the first episode and watch from episode 2 and on. You'll love it.

Dexter

I wanted to write a blog about another show I have been watching. So, here it is! I have also been watching the show named Dexter. It's about a man named Dexter who is a blood splatter analyst by day for Miami Metro Police Department, and crazy smart serial killer who kills other serial killers by night. Before ever watching the show I thought it sounded like one of the stupidest shows ever. But when I watched the first couple of episodes I couldn't stop watching the show.

Anyways, this show is elaborate, creative, and creepy. I noticed that as the seasons progress Dexter seems to get more and more... sane. In the first season, Dexter keeps to himself and when he reacts with other people he sounds very very awkward. But as the season progresses and with each new season he seems to get more and more witty and it makes it fun to watch and observe, because if he maintained his awkward ways he would be just like Keanu Reves (no idea how to spell his name...terrible emotionless actor though).

Dexter also has a sister in the show, Deb. The actress is the chick from the Exorcism of Emily Rose, and Deb is the extremely foul mouthed privacy isn't an option bad ass detective sister. One thing that is also constant (or at least so far) with Deb's life in the show is that she always gets into relationships with people that have to go REALLY bad. like REALLLY BAD. I can't say what exactly is bad about them because, well, you have to watch the show and find out!

But there's only one problem with the show.... Even though this is a fictitious show, it follows realistic trends. For example, they solve crimes with forensics and some intuition and chases etc. And there's no paranormal forces helping or hurting yadda yadda yadda. What I can't get my head around is..... Is it even possible to have that many serial killers concentrated in one city....and also over the course of, let's say 4 years? I mean any serial killer that have been known are part of history and I don't think they had serial killers back to back occurrences within a couple of years with each other. I may be completely wrong and police departments and the FBI might not publicize it for our own well-being, and so we don't live in a constant state of fear, but come on. WAYY too many serial killers, and if it is realistic at all, I'm never going to Miami then.

Prison Break

The other day my roommate mentioned a T.V. show he just recently started watching on Netflix. It's called Prison Break, and it's an extreme action T.V. series that includes death, scheming, love, loss, fear, laughter, and pretty much every aspect of genre a t.v. show could offer. Except it isn't for children.

I decided to start watching the show, and it's amazing. The whole first season is about this man who was framed and he was due for an electrical chair execution for killing the vice president's son or w/e. This man, Lincoln Burrows, has a brother named Michael Scofield who is an engineer at some architecture firm. Michael figures out that his brother is kept in a penitentiary that was designed by his firm and starts planning his break out.

I'm not going to reveal anymore about the t.v. show but while I was watching an episode in season two there's this scene where one of the convicts is trying to blend in with the college kids on campus and while he was walking on some sidewalk I thought to myself, "hmmm that looks kind of like the sidewalk towards Hughes Trigg. " Then it hit me. It was the path towards Hughes Trigg! and then later in the episode they were using the front lawn in front of Dallas Hall for another scene, and I was like WHOOAOAOAOAOAOAAOAAOOAAOAO. I thought it was cool.

You should watch an episode or two of Prison Break and I guarantee you will be hooked on the show. But make sure it's the first two episodes so you don't spoil any of the intense action and crazy planning behind the mastermind.