Has anyone seen it yet? It apparently released in Italy already in fall, in germany we got it two days ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlNxi5o-VBw (the trailer is in italien, didn't find one in latin).
I watched the first episode and i have really mixed feelings. The visuals are great but i was totally confused by the story. It begins with two brother which i thought to be Romulus and Remus sind they are the grandsons of Numitor, however Romulus is apparently not even in the first season if i am correct. Maybe as a baby.
The society they depict is very strange. Although there are vestals and auguric rituals, they have rites of passage that look as if they are taken from some tribal societies from other continents. Even if they are backwater at the time, it's 800 BC and the Bronze Age is basically over in which the most mediterranean cultures were much further. At the beginning i thought i watch the movie Apocalyptico.
I watched the voice over that is meant to be old-latin but actually it's a bit of a joke compared to the care they invested in the "Barbarians" show on Netflix. I guess they have consulted researchers on this and came up with some archaic versions of some words but it is essentially classic latin spoken from Italiens and not even some form of classic vulgar latin which would have made more sense. The problem with the italiens speaking latin of course is that they pronounce the words way to soft which is why in "Barbarians" they especially looked for sicilian actors which pronounce their italien generally way closer to classic latin than the other italians. After they made such a fuss about this, i would say they failed.
As for the series itself, after one episode i have the huge problem that i have not a single character i know enough about the care for, especially after they are all not that sympathic to begin with. Together with a story that confuses and explains nothing, i am sceptical if i should continue to watch.