Review by LauraAnnG

I watched all of it in hope it would somehow get better.

But nope.

Filled with dreadful characters - not one of them is endearing or sympathetic. There is no charisma or anything remotely relatable.

On a big TV the FX like the races is not very good. You see the cgi stuff mixed with an actor standing on a platform, jiggling reins and yelling "Hah!" Or some such thing. It gets silly.

I'm a huge history buff and especially like ancient and medieval history so this should have been my cup of tea. I really tried to like it. Like I said I watched all ten episodes.

I am trying hard to find something positive. I can't. I did like the main male lead. But in the end he is just awful like all the rest of the characters. I simply find myself wondering what Roland Emmerich was thinking. He's made some great movies and TV. He failed miserably here.

I suppose some of the sets were okay. The problem is that this is so abysmal that it overwhelms anything visually interesting.

There's a lot of disturbing and bloody violence. I don't think of it as gratuitous but some of it is pretty over the top.