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99 Words About … The bloody end of ‘Spartacus’

After this season, it’s history.

Aside from introducing Julius Caesar, curiously one of few Romans without a Caesar haircut, not much has changed for the final episodes of the swords-and-sandals-and-sex epic “Spartacus” (9 p.m. Friday, Starz).

It still displays more skin than a dermatology textbook.

And the fantastically, hilariously violent series still treats heads the way Gallagher treats watermelons.

It’s like someone attached fire hoses to a blood bank.

Just don’t demonize “Spartacus” for that.

Yet.

Save it till the next mass slaying committed with a sword, spear or the terrifying one-two punch of a net and a trident.

– CHRISTOPHER LAWRENCE

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