Spartacus: Blood and Flesh would be more like it

A TV show does not want to show an honest and complete picture of a society, I can understand that of course. But the little haven of intrigue they created here is too simplistic for my taste. Some people must have worked in those days, or gone to war. Women had nothing or close to nothing to say. Also if this were a Gladiator school/ training facility, with just the few guards/soldiers around, the group of gladiators would be stupid not to have used the occasion to escape and/or kill the entire family. I think they just want to show us skin, intrigue and fights. It has nothing to do with the real Spartacus. His revolution and the units (later armies) Rome sent after them would be much too expensive to film for this company - since they already seem to have a problem filming the setting they created (the CGI of the house on the hill and the "natural" sunlight is hard to bear...as are the continuous slow-motions of people dropping from the sky and endless spurts of red paint/blood)
The good thing is that finally someone dares to show that wars and fights in those days were scary as hell and not just some adventure as depicted in so many other older movies.
But taste differs of course. ANd if people love the show and/or are pushed by it to find out more about Roman society/history that's good.

Yeah, I heard that they were postponing the second season because of him. I do hope he gets better soon as well- what a shame to finally realize your dream, only to have it taken away from you!