
Okay, so the new season kicks off with a really wild twist! They brought back Ashur – you remember him, the villain Spartacus took down on Vesuvius? – but this time he’s in the underworld, and Lucy Lawless makes a quick appearance as Lucretia to fill us in. Basically, she sends him back to Earth, but to a timeline where he actually killed Spartacus – and honestly, they don’t bother explaining how any of that happened! Suddenly, Ashur wakes up running the gladiator school – the ‘ludus’ – and he’s got those two women, Hilara and Messia, under his control. Apparently, he used to work for Lucretia’s husband, and wasn’t exactly a nice guy to be around. It’s a total shake-up of everything we knew!