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08 Sep

Barbarians Season 2: Questions the German Netflix Series Needs to Answer

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Warning: contains spoilers for Barbarians season one. While historians may have other items on their wish list (including more a more accurate representation of 9 AD, judging by some responses), what most viewers want from a second season of Barbarians is escapist action. We want hefty sword fights, ferocious armies, blood-daubed faces screaming for revenge, shocking deaths, betrayals, and naked hook-ups in the dye shed. All that is hopefully in the pipeline now that filming on season two is underway. As reported by Deadline, the second season of Germany’s most successful Netflix production went into production in and around the…
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06 Nov

Barbarians and Animal Symbolism: What Did Wolves Mean in the Ancient World?

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If you’ve seen the Netflix series Barbarians, you can’t have missed the many, many references to wolves on both sides of the central battle. The first episode is titled ‘Wolf and Eagle’, the three Germanic leads each wear a wolf’s tooth around their neck, their tribe tells stories about a wolf that will come to devour the world, while Roman characters tell their own myths about children suckled by a wolf, and wolves prowl the surrounding forests. Were the ancient Germanic tribes and the ancient Romans really that into wolves? Well, yes, though they meant something quite different to the…
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02 Nov

Barbarians Season 2: What to Expect

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Warning: contains Barbarians spoilers Barbaren – to give Barbarians its original German title (which you should, because then you can sing it to the tune of The Beach Boys’ Barbara Ann) appears to have been a massive hit for Netflix. It came out of nowhere in the last week of October and whipped straight into the streaming service’s Top 10. It would be unusual then, if Barbaren weren’t renewed for a second season. Though there’s no official word yet – and Netflix has been slashing and burning through a pile of single season new commissions of late – fans should be hopeful about the chances…
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30 Oct

Barbarians’ True Story: the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, Arminius and Roman Defeat

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Warning: contains Barbarians spoilers The story told by Netflix’s Barbarians – the Germanic tribes rising up to take a sizeable chunk out of the invading Roman Empire in the Battle of Teutoburg Forest, also known as the Varian Disaster – is a key historical event that took place in 9 CE.  The battle’s events are related in several historical sources, among them ‘Germania’ by Roman historian Tacitus. The tribes’ victory dealt Rome a heavy blow which is now seen as a turning point in the history of the Roman Empire, which lost up to 20,000 soldiers over the three-to-four-day battle, effectively halting…
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29 Oct

Netflix’s Barbarians: Here to Fill The Last Kingdom and Vikings-Shaped Hole in Your Life

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Just because Netflix viewers don’t live in a world where it’s acceptable to strip to the waist, smear ourself in blood and send a spear whistling through the neck of our enemy, doesn’t mean that we don’t want to watch other people doing it. We very much do.  Brutal historical TV drama is a holiday from our small lives. Olden-days mud and guts are an antidote to hours spent worrying about whether we offended Justin in accounts with that .gif, or if our dog is eating a sufficiently iron-rich diet. To the modern person, the life of a warrior has an attractive…
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03 Aug

Waiting for the Barbarians

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The Magistrate (Mark Rylance) of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of Colonel Joll (Johnny Depp), whose task it is to report on the activities of the ‘barbarians’ and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations, which leads the Magistrate to question his loyalty to the empire. Rated: Not RatedRelease Date: Aug 07, 2020
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