Spartacus: House of Ashur
Created by Steven S. DeKnight
In a world where he survived the events of Spartacus, Ashur clawed his way to power, owning the same ludus that once owned him. Allying with a fierce gladiatrix, Ashur ignites a new kind of spectacle that offends the elite. From TMDB
298 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 14, 2026 · last updated Oct 14, 2026 · How this works
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On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Spartacus: House of Ashur holds an approval rating of 91% based on 11 reviews. The website's critical consensus reads, "A surprising plunge into the Spartacus canon, this House of Asher arrives narratively inspired and drenched in delectable drama and intrigue." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 75 out of 100 based on 9 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.
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60 of 298 · most liked firstCan't put my finger on why I like this show. Any ideas? #SPARTACUS #DONGS #DICKS #FCF #PENIS #COCK
positive · AI labelView post →'Kassius' My OC. Main inspiration is from 'Spartacus' series.
neutral · AI labelView post →OK, since I finished "Spartacus: House of Ashur" and were reminded of "Those About to Die" (great show, watch it) and seeing as I'm always being about "Rome," let's do a very quick thread about real gladiators, based on what I remember learning about them like 15 years. 🧵
neutral · AI labelView post →"Why do you like that show Spartacus so much??" Because it has Manu Bennett as Crixus. I feel no other explanation is needed. Yes it's real.
neutral · AI labelView post →So stoked to start covering the Spartacus series with @miloedwards.bsky.social and @phoeberoi.bsky.social - such a wild, fun, interesting show. I had forgotten that the first episode featured an orgy with what can only be described as a “dildo helmet,” though.
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — The Art of Living~Epictetus 💡 One movie 🎥 — Spartacus ⚔️ One album 💿 — Donuts- J. Dilla 🍩 One TV show 📺 — 24 (if you know, you know) 🪖
neutral · AI labelView post →The best description of TV series *Spartacus* (2010-12) from today's @theguardian.com "like being shot in the face by a pump-action bum-gun" 🤣 www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
neutral · AI labelView post →You might know actor Robert Schenkkan as Remmick from two episodes of #StarTrek TNG. But, did you know that, in 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his stage drama “The Kentucky Cycle”? As a writer, he contributed to the screenplay for “The Quiet American” and wrote for the series “Spartacus”.
neutral · AI labelView post →Rewatching Spartacus and this show remains so good still and full of eye candy 🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️🙂↕️
positive · AI labelView post →Spartacus has often functioned as a litmus test of what people think a "smart" show is. Obv it leaned into operatic violence & stylized soap mechanics BUT it was also incredibly well constructed & had a lot of smart political points to make. Exploration of consent & autonomy PILLARS of the show.
positive · AI labelView post →2/ Previous Spartacus seasons are on US Netflix & Starz (H of Ashur on latter). You may watch OG Spartacus pilot & think, has Mo been sampling the crackity crack? WHY is she such an evangelist for this show? The bottom line is, the pilot isn't what the show becomes. Get thru it. Trust the process.
neutral · AI labelView post →6/ Under the show thrums the disturbing idea, which Spartacus never, ever loses sight of, that the gladiators are OWNED. They are bodies as furniture, as assets. There is literally an ep called Party Favors. Their bodies are handed out like gift bags at a VIP bash. If they resist this, they die.
positive · AI labelView post →Last night while waiting for our show to start I found a prop left by a previous theatre group. "I AM SPARTACUS"
neutral · AI labelView post →Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only: Sense8 The West Wing Buffy the Vampire Slayer Red Dwarf Good Omens Arrested Development Heroes (first season, anyway) The White Lotus Futurama Spartacus That Mitchell and Webb Look Star Trek Voyager X-Men animated series AHS Modern Family
neutral · AI labelView post →If y’all couldn’t watch Spartacus back when it was on Starz, FYI: it’s now on Netflix!!!! Highly recommend the show. It’s so fucking good! I shall be doing a rewatch of that show too, very soon.
positive · AI labelView post →Lol i love my fuckin dad, mind you he is an old black boomer but i can honestly say he is still pretty progressively minded which im grateful for. However it is REALLY REALLY FUNNY when he is watching Spartacus and is shocked every time a dude is gay....in this show about gladiators in ancient Rome
neutral · AI labelView post →@therafischwartz.bsky.social oh, sort of on the SPARTACUS tip, the ASH VS. EVIL DEAD series is also great. It's not DeKnight but it IS Raimi and Tapert, and it's the same kind of trashy, stupid-like-a-fox twisty turny stuff that's great popcorn TV.
neutral · AI labelView post →Spartacus was PEAK and was so ahead of it's time. It also had a proper ending unlike another violent drama show that I pretend never existed
positive · AI labelView post →Caught up on the finale of Spartacus: House of Asher and gods be praised, @stevendeknight.bsky.social the writing staff, cast and crew did it yet again! Jupiter’s cock, this show still has it! Even after all this time it never missed a beat. A damn good season. May the gods bless us with another.
positive · AI labelView post →A Nyx series in the style of a Rome or Spartacus, with all the appropriately R-rated parts and the immersive world building
neutral · AI labelView post →I have an unruly mind so I can't organize or lead but I'm ready for a Spartacus to emerge from our ranks to show us the path. We have to learn to go on the offensive, not just react to their outrages. The other side has been ignoring norms since Nixon and we have to acknowledge we've enabled them.
neutral · AI labelView post →We're all adults here. 😎 Our own @outsidecomiccon.com caught a look at new #SDCC banners up near the Convention Center, for Starz series #Outlander, Outlander #BloodOfMyBlood, and #Spartacus: sdccblog.com/2025/07/san-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I just started rewatching Spartacus, the TV series.
neutral · AI labelView post →Finally getting around to THOSE ABOUT TO DIE, the show about the underbelly of Roman showbiz at the dawn of the Flavian dynasty, and guys? This is precisely the trashy shit I've been missing since Spartacus
neutral · AI labelView post →Have you seen her in the new Spartacus: House of Ashur series? Dear lord
neutral · AI labelView post →Me, watching the new Spartacus show and seeing all the ridiculous looking dicks
neutral · AI labelView post →Spartacus : House of Ashur You get fights, hot naked men and sex My type of series
positive · AI labelView post →Spartacus series on Netflix ahhh missed rewatching it since it was taken down on amazon 😭
positive · AI labelView post →The final OG season was Spartacus War of the Damned, when, among the other wonderful things about the show, DeKnight said to himself, "My very gay show is quite possibly *not gay enough* -- I need MORE gayness" and frankly, may the gods bless that man www.huffpost.com/entry/sparta...
neutral · AI labelView post →Re-watching Spartacus and I forgot how great this show was.
positive · AI labelView post →Teaser Trailer For The Starz Sequel Series SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR
neutral · AI labelView post →#LookAndSee 494 #MusicChallenge #MusicSky Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia - Khachaturian (Used as the theme music for UK TV series The Onedin Line) youtu.be/fnFeXa0nGao
neutral · AI labelView post →How come every time Crixus gets mouthy, Spartacus doesn’t just say “Is this show named Crixus? No it’s not. It’s named Spartacus.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm a big fan of the original Spartacus, a show that was, at pretty much every turn, better and more perceptive than it had to be about the genuinely horrific slave society of Ancient Rome. Very excited to hear that we're back in business, baby
positive · AI labelView post →Feeling a little disenchanted with gladitoral fights in Ridley Scott's latest blockbuster? It might be worthwhile to revisit the series #Spartacus! Check out our episode on S1 with @belovedofoizys.bsky.social as well! #AncientBluesky #Podcast #Gladiator #BloodandSand
neutral · AI labelView post →Catching up on SPARTACUS: HOUSE OF ASHUR, and honestly, I think this show does a really good job with Julius Caesar
positive · AI labelView post →when I heard about the new Spartacus AU (!!!) show I was skeptical and frankly a bit eye-rolling but omg that trailer brought back all the bonehead delights of the old show in 2 minutes, i am simply a huge mark for oiled up muscle bros and sexy ladies doing ham acting while limbs get chopped off
positive · AI labelView post →why was everyone talking about thinking about ancient rome a little while back.. just think about it or don't. wouldn't mind chatting about that show Spartacus tho. on uh.... Starz? that can't be right
neutral · AI labelView post →Who is this entire badass? I’m watching the latest Spartacus mini-series. Is it gorier that the last one or is it all this BOMING making me more sensitive? Anyway a white man tried her and she ripped his dick off. Normally I am here for that but I was eating dinner www.imdb.com/name/nm24765...
neutral · AI labelView post →Oil those iron-like muscles, it's that time of year again as we kick off Thewly on #StrangeStudies with our FREE SHOW on Richard L. Tierney's "The Sword of Spartacus"! Slink panther-like on over to Patreon, iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts for more! #hppodcraft
neutral · AI labelView post →what else could we do while we wait? starz does “Halleck” - a Spartacus-like series about the Harkonnen fighting pits, full of violence and sexy people CW does “the adventures of Hawat” - an exciting series about a young mentat who meets an ambitious bull fighter who turns out to be a duke
neutral · AI labelView post →I love Spartacus, the show that asks what if we did Marxism but horny
positive · AI labelView post →Is it weird that I nly developed an interest in seeing the Netflix Rome docudrama series Reign of Blood when I found out Solonius from Spartacus was cast as Tiberius?
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching House of Ashur and I forgot how frequent and big the dick game is in the Spartacus series 😂 So much cock 😅
neutral · AI labelView post →This thread got me to give the older Spartacus show a shot. I'm seven episodes in now and loving it.
positive · AI labelView post →I just saw there's a new Spartacus series premiering this year. And it has Claudia Black in it too! I pared down my streaming services in spring, but I'm gonna have to get Starz for this one. Those are my guilty pleasure shows of hot people being super messy in cool sets. 🤣
positive · AI labelView post →Imperial Rome collides with the Cthulhu Mythos in The Sword of Spartacus by Richard L. Tierney! New FREE show for sword-n-sorcery July! Tune in!
neutral · AI labelView post →After completing the rewatch, I think Spartacus has to move higher up the rankings. Such a fire show. The unfortunate passing of the lead (Andy Whitfield) after S1 threw a lot of people but so well done.
positive · AI labelView post →This kind of thing is an important form of representation. Beyond direct effects, it's an "I'm Spartacus!" opportunity for non-partisan scholars to show they are willing to sign their names in public opposition.
neutral · AI labelView post →The next few weeks is gonna be me posting shit like “fuck I’m so rock hard horny for this show” and nobody knowing if I’m talking about Spartacus, X-men, or Reacher.
neutral · AI labelView post →All right, #WheelofTime show fans and #savewot allies(including the #savequeerstories, #SaveWarriorNun,& #SaveDeadBoyDetectives movements) - we have 1,196 signatures to get. #Spartacus show fans, care to help? savewot.com
neutral · AI labelView post →Spartacus was a really, really good show. That is all.
positive · AI labelView post →waht makes it funnier is he LOVES the show Spartacus mainly for all the fighting and titty but he like has to endure whenever two dudes a clearly getting ready to have violent gay sex XD
neutral · AI labelView post →Cannot believe more people on leftie queer bsky aren't talking about Spartacus: House of Ashur by @stevendeknight.bsky.social. Ep 5 just *easily* reached the wildest heights of the original series, and this time w/a black female gladiator at the helm. EVERYONE COME WATCH THIS WITH ME!
positive · AI labelView post →My review of the finale of Spartacus Vengeance. www.huffpost.com/entry/sparta...
neutral · AI labelView post →I appreciate everyone volunteering to show up and say "I threw the sandwich" for a cinematic Spartacus moment.
neutral · AI labelView post →hell yeah, had so much fun doing the show and talking Spartacus with the MooD podcast!
neutral · AI labelView post →@stevendeknight.bsky.social I was busy when you first premiered the New Spartacus show. I'm about five episodes deep and all I can say is Bravo 👏🏿 It's great it's fuccking great.Hope 2026 is going well for you
positive · AI labelView post →At one point was I so feral and disregarded at HuffPost that I could posit, in a fever dream of a blog post, that Downton Abbey and Spartacus were almost the same show? Yes! This apparently happened! (was I getting enough sleep in 2012? I'm thinking no???!!) www.huffpost.com/entry/sparta...
neutral · AI labelView post →#catpics #Caturday "Don't interrupt my shows" #spartacus #explodingkittens
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