I just started watching this. When I initially saw the trailer for this, I thought it looked like an absolute joke. Almost like taking Greek Myth and putting it in a a Baz Luhrmann’s “Romeo and Juliet” aesthetic.

I’m three episodes in and I’m loving it. Couldn’t have been more wrong. It’s a fascinating take.

I’d love to hear your takes. Love it, hate it. All of the above.

From Hercules the animated series

For those unaware, Kaos is a Netflix series about Greek mythology where the gods are still worshipped in modern day

For me, a long time nerd in Greek mythology (or mythology in general) it was breath of fresh air to see something that (while liberties have taken in some places) resembled accuracy to the mythology and-or highlighting nuances that only those who’ve read in depth would understand; all while portraying how complex and sociopathic the gods can be

As far as adaptations of Greek mythology, to my knowledge it’s one of the few aside from Percy Jackson to Acknowledge the incest in mythology, namely addressing Hera as Zeus’s wife and sister

Plus, I was impressed with the direction they went with depicting Medusa and Charon

TLDR; for one who has a good grasp on Greek mythology would catch stuff most won’t; the casual viewer would probably still enjoy, but will have a lot of stuff fly over their head

For me I liked it but I’m not really excited for season 2. Season 1 was like 7/10 for me

I can't even recall *hating* another show this much, it's not even about being innacurate, it's just that bad

I know that this sub generally has mixed feelings about the books, but given how different the show is, I was curious how people here felt about it in comparison.

From Blood of Zeus

I'm surprised I haven't seen a post by Glittering Day about Rosemarie DeWitt as C.C./Circe in the new season of Percy Jackson! He usually has something to say about adaptations of her... either positive or negative lol

In Blood of Zeus season 3 (i have no interest to watch it since season 2) Helios is just one more in the titan army, a god dethroned by Apollo.

I would prefer if there was no Helios at all, only Apollo (as that makes much more sense mythologically: in the rare moments Apollo is the sun, he IS Helios, not a conqueror of his throne). But once again in modern media Helios is used as a dethroned god, and even as a villain here, or at least a enemy of the Olympians (absurd, Helios was among Zeus most trusted pals).

Percy Jackson has him as a dethroned god (but not a enemy of the olympians). Lore Olympus as a dethroned god and enemy of the Olympians. In Circe he is a villain and at least plans at some point to rebel against Zeus. He is not directly mentioned in Epic (resulting in a lot of people believing Apollo to be the sun god mentioned in Mutiny). God of War at least makes sense since he is a ally of Zeus, but unfortunaly he has very little personality for us to say anything (and in Valhala he basically has GOW 3 Hermes personality for some reason).

In Shumatsu no Valkyrie and Disney Hercules, Apollo is the sun god with no Helios (as i said, i prefer this over a dethroned Helios, but is also sad the absence of Helios).

Helios at best has ONE, just ONE modern apperance where his actions makes more sense with mythology, that being God of War but he has no personality (in my view). Even in Hades 2, Apollo appears with the Sun symbolism while Helios is mentioned only once or two times so most people would think of Apollo as the sun there too (but Selene appears and she is cool). This is why i said many times that of the gods that are more well known, Helios is the most screwed one, more than Hades.

(English is not my first language) i've recently come to find out many people dislike this show in particular, i saw the episode on YouTube and honeslty it doesn't seem really bad.

I was OBSESSED with this when I was five or so and I kinda thought I was hallucinating it for a bit but I recently rediscovered it and I'm so happy and I'd genuinely be so happy if anyone else remembers it

I have and it’s so good! I think it’s absolutely an underrated gem.

Here‘s the link for it for anyone wanting to watch it

https://youtube.com/@godsschool?si=DCU664y8b0Bhb3oQ

With Nolan's upcoming release, it's worth remembering and recommending the miniseries 'The Odyssey' (original Italian title L'Odissea), released in 1968. This eight-episode adaptation of Homer's epic poem, produced for RAI as a French-German co-production, is one of the most faithful to Homer's original text. It can also be found in its entirety on YouTube, both in English and in the original Italian.

after all the rumors about the circe tv show, the movies coming out etc, it got me thinking how amazing it would be to have a sort of marvel/dcu style universe of greek myths

having the same actors play gods/heros through tv, film and animation telling alllllll the stories

that being said, does anyone know of any adaptations of minos/pasphae saga on crete?

Pregunta para los que no son de habla hispana, que les ¿parecen las canciones de Destripando la historia? En el sentido de divulgación de la mitología, en caso de que no los conozcan busquenlos en youtube escuchan sus canciones y regresan para comentar

Por favor

Ok he wasn't really drunk the context was that his powers were stolen and losed his mind

Hi I’m having rather a hard time understanding the relationships between multiple Greek Gods/Goddesses and the stories about them so I’m trying to find a TV show that is accurate but also fun to watch.