Not an egregious issue but one I’d like to see change. I think I can count on my hands the amount of places they go not including the different rooms of the lutus. If I’d have to give any criticism it’s obviously to the first few episodes but I’d say the main thing I had an issue with is a lack of location variety. Everything is set up well, and the payoff to literally everything is just as good. The writing is a bit melodramatic at points, but more often than not gets the point across in entertaining or emotionally affecting ways, and the storyline is really good. Of course the standout is Andy Whitfield as Spartacus, who’s thoroughly fantastic the entire length of the season, and who I’m genuinely going to miss watching the others. They have a believable physicality of gladiators, but also act as real human beings who react realistically to the things happening around them. The entirety of it is a little too gratuitous in its violence (particularly the blood effects) to take totally seriously, but you do end up caring for the characters, which are portrayed excellently. But the show gets continuously better over time, and ends in a great finale. Set in the late 1980s, Hap and Leonard is a darkly comic swamp noir of two best friends, one femme fatale, a crew of washed up revolutionaries, a pair of murderous psycho killers, some lost loot, and the fuzz. The entirety of it is a little too gratuitous in its violence (particularly the blood effects) to take totally seriously, but you do end up caring for the characters, which are The first few episodes are rough. Hap and Leonard (20162018) TV-MA 60 min Crime, Drama, Mystery.
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