Thanks to television becoming premium entertainment in the 21st century, historical adventure shows are now able to secure bigger budgets than in years gone by, resulting in small-screen tales as good as anything on the big screen. One of the best action-packed historical shows of the 2010s has suddenly become a big hit on Netflix, breaking into the streamer's top 10 TV shows list. We're talking about the Starz series "Spartacus," which is seeing a renaissance on streaming more than a decade after it ended.

Following the historical figure of the same name (a Thracian gladiator who led a slave uprising against the Romans), "Spartacus" is the brainchild of Steven S. DeKnight, who would later develop the first season of Marvel's "Daredevil" for Netflix. It debuted in 2010, led by little-know

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