kourvarasg Nothing more that wasting your time to watch a B movie. Slow action, poor performances, low budget action sceens. Not much to tell about the mixup of the writers' fantasies. Nothing to do with the original story, just an excuse of airing 6 hours of film. Greatly dissapointed (obviously)

highme-03398 I've read different versions of The Iliad and The Odyssey by Homer. And I've thought this show did a great job with the time restrictions of only being 8 episodes. The budget seemed great, makeup, dialogue, direction, and casting. Seems like most people who gave the show a bad review, didn't have the patience to enjoy the rest of the show. I thought they did a great job with the source material.

Trevor Johns The Gods, at play with we mortals, enjoy displaying their strength and power over us. So it came to pass, as they say in the Classics, that the actors in this classic somehow offended the Gods. And this led to them being cursed. However they were not cursed with being bad actors, as tempting as it is to proffer this. No, being Greek Gods, they cursed the actors with leaving them exactly as they are. Mere mortal human beings with absolutely no charisma whatsoever. That is a heck of an effective curse.A scan of the characters, Achilles, Ajax, Agamemnon, Hector, Helen reveals those whose names are the essence of legend and thereby charisma.No actor here is a bad actor, but there was not one great artiste of high art among them. And the Iliad is greatness, and therefore requires, greatness to be brought to it.Perhaps it was as simple a matter as the present BBC's financial masters restricted them to hiring actors who would save them a few bob in the long run. Maybe it was that bargain basement ratings were brought about by hiring bargain basement actors. Who knows. Well, actually the Gods know, because it was they who cursed this lackluster telling of one of the world's greatest classic stories. Cursed it to be ordinary, when it needed to be extraordinary.

alexandrosapelyan I'm not going to spend my time in this garbage serie or on this review so I'm going to keep it short. TERRIBLE acting, script, acting, lack of sets lack of decoration.