A new Netflix show called ‘Barbarians’ was launched this weekend. It is based on one of the most famous historical wars, the battle of Teutoburg forest between Germanic Tribe and the Romans.
After first episode you might think that this is a fierce high school content set in a historic background, but you will be surprised from the second episode as the series gets intense very fast. It is not only intense in action but also portrays vehement emotional scenes.
At no point in the series will you feel bored or blank. It maintains an engaging supply of content throughout the show. Not only action, but it also provides an ample amount of romantic content. Thusnelda and Folkwin are the two main love interest of the series who goes through all sorts of loss and aggression periods through the episodes.
It is not all about action , which most viewers must be expecting, and that makes this series even more interesting. It is a character driven show and each character brings different kinds of twists and turns on the table. Most of them work on emotions but their priorities bring a big difference in their actions. Sometimes the character’s actions may get emotionally heavy on you, but then you realize that it’s a German series and it was obviously going to get brutal.
The show does not shy away from showing the drama inside the two camps in the beginning and not keeping it a suspense like most shows. This show the writer’s faith in the content and the direction that the team wanted to take from the beginning. Also it does not stays back in following the same pattern of sex and violence that we see in the other similar series. But still it has an intriguing narration with more dialogues than just meaningless shouting and blood.
Although the actors, director, editor, makeup team and writers have done an outstanding job, improvements are expected on the part of art and sound director. In a lot of scenes you can feel that it is a set instead of a real place. We expect that if such things can get better in the upcoming seasons, then it has a great potential to win a lot of hearts that it might not be able to win with its first season due to an oversupply of same kind of content in the internet market.
Also the availability of so many historic action shows makes it harder to love it and we are left stuck on liking it. The memories of other shows will struck your mind and you will unconsciously start comparing it, because of which you won’t be able to appreciate the show a lot and some of the viewers may also not like it due to the lack of action sequences. A lot of the viewers are going to juxtapose it with the famous action thriller ‘Vikings’.
During these trying times Netflix has provided us with some great International Dramas and I must say that Barbarians is one of those. You will not be disappointed with this action series at all!
I give it 3/5 stars.
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