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- Netflix premiered a new original last weekend called Barbarians, a historical drama set around the famous Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Germanic tribes obliterated three Roman legions in 9 AD in one of the worst defeats Rome ever suffered.
- What’s amazing about the limited TV series is that all dialogue happens in the original languages of the opposing forces — Latin for the Romans and German for the Germanic tribes they face.
- The surprising use of Latin isn’t the only thing that makes Barbarians an entertaining experience. It’s really the story that will make you want to watch the TV series and possibly regret the first season only has six episodes in it.
One of the upsides of the coronavirus pandemic is that you have time to catch up on all the streaming shows you’ve wanted to see but never had the time for. Plus Netflix keeps adding more and more titles despite the pandemic, so there’s always a new batch of movies and TV series to check out. And the service keeps adding more and more international shows to its roster as well. Last week, I told you about a series called To the Lake that I couldn’t stop watching. It wasn’t just the premise of the TV series that got me: a pandemic slightly more dangerous than COVID-19 forces people to do unthinkable things to survive. It was also the setting. It all happens in Russia, a place where strange things are already taking place during the real-life pandemic. The characters all speak Russian, giving it the kind of authenticity that HBO’s Chernobyl never had thanks to its perfect British accents.
But Russian is a language that’s obviously still very much alive, spoken by hundreds of millions of people in Russia and around the world. The new Netflix original series I'm addicted to now uses a much older language for much of its dialogue. Believe it or not, half of the characters speak only Latin.
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I can’t stop watching this Netflix original that’s unlike anything you’ve ever seen – or heard originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 31 Oct 2020 at 13:22:26 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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