Home > Troy: Fall of a City > Season 1 « TV Series Page Troy: Fall of a City: Season 1 (2018) + WANT TO SEE Episode List Season 1 Troy: Fall of a City Critics Consensus Troy: Fall of a City never tries to reinvent the bronze wheel but succeeds in engaging audiences with both royal and divine intrigue, making for a highly enjoyable romp in the lost kingdom. 71% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 24 24% Audience Score User Ratings: 537 NEW More Info × Close ADD YOUR RATING Share on Facebook Post Want to See Add Rating My Rating × Want to See Post Share on Facebook Episodes 1 Black Blood Air date: Feb 17, 2018 Following a fateful encounter with the gods, the life of young herdsman Paris changes forever. At the Troy city games, he discovers something extraordinary, and on a trip to Sparta, he falls in love with unpredictable and far-reaching consequences. More 2 Conditions The elopement of Helen and Paris causes chaos for the Greeks and the Trojans. Priam and Hecuba debate whether to send Helen back or risk the consequences. The goddess Artemis presents Agamemnon with an even more agonising dilemma. More 3 Siege With the Greeks' grip on the city tightening, Hector and Paris embark on a dangerous journey to a nearby ally to ask for help. Relying on each other for survival tests and strengthens their bond, but a familiar face reappears to tell Hector the disturbing truth about his brother. Helen begins to win over Andromache and the Trojan people with her generosity. More 4 Spoils of War Achilles' shock attack on Troy's ally Cilicia devastates the Trojans and puts the spotlight on Helen. Andromache receives both good news and bad. A bitter dispute erupts between Agamemnon and Achilles. More 5 Hunted Paris is hunted by the Greeks and returns to his former life, leaving Helen without an ally in Troy just as Pandarus' investigation gathers momentum. The Trojans attempt to take advantage of the divisions within the Greek camp. More 6 Battle on the Beach The Trojans receive a message from the gods and embark on a daring raid with new allies. Helen's situation remains precarious. Achilles is provoked into returning to battle. More 7 Twelve Days King Priam takes his life into his hands to visit Achilles. A truce is agreed, but will it hold? Helen faces a personal crisis as her relationship with Paris comes under strain. More 8 Offering The Trojans are stunned to discover that all that remains of the Greek army in Troy is an offering to the gods in the form of a wooden horse. They believe the war may finally be over, and celebrations begin. More Troy: Fall of a City: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (16) Tv Season Info The myths surrounding the Trojan War are over 3,000 years old but have emotional depths and timeless themes of identity, love, revenge and belonging. Troy: Fall of a City grounds these primal myths in vivid psychological truth and explores the universal questions of human existence- how people battle to retain their love and humanity amidst the chaos and devastation of war. Genre: Drama Network: Netflix Premiere Date: Feb 17, 2018 Exec. Producers: Derek Wax, David Farr, Christopher Aird Cast Louis Hunter as Paris Bella Dayne as Helen David Threlfall as King Priam of Troy Frances O'Connor (II) as Hecuba, Queen of Troy Tom Weston-Jones as Hector Joseph Mawle as Odysseus Chloe Pirrie as Andromache Johnny Harris as Agamemnon David Gyasi as Achilles Jonas Armstrong as Menelaos, the King of Sparta Alfred Enoch as Trojan general Aeneas Aimee-Ffion Edwards as Cassandra Show More Cast Episodes 1 Black Blood Air date: Feb 17, 2018 Following a fateful encounter with the gods, the life of young herdsman Paris changes forever. At the Troy city games, he discovers something extraordinary, and on a trip to Sparta, he falls in love with unpredictable and far-reaching consequences. More 2 Conditions The elopement of Helen and Paris causes chaos for the Greeks and the Trojans. Priam and Hecuba debate whether to send Helen back or risk the consequences. The goddess Artemis presents Agamemnon with an even more agonising dilemma. More 3 Siege With the Greeks' grip on the city tightening, Hector and Paris embark on a dangerous journey to a nearby ally to ask for help. Relying on each other for survival tests and strengthens their bond, but a familiar face reappears to tell Hector the disturbing truth about his brother. Helen begins to win over Andromache and the Trojan people with her generosity. More 4 Spoils of War Achilles' shock attack on Troy's ally Cilicia devastates the Trojans and puts the spotlight on Helen. Andromache receives both good news and bad. A bitter dispute erupts between Agamemnon and Achilles. More 5 Hunted Paris is hunted by the Greeks and returns to his former life, leaving Helen without an ally in Troy just as Pandarus' investigation gathers momentum. The Trojans attempt to take advantage of the divisions within the Greek camp. More 6 Battle on the Beach The Trojans receive a message from the gods and embark on a daring raid with new allies. Helen's situation remains precarious. Achilles is provoked into returning to battle. More 7 Twelve Days King Priam takes his life into his hands to visit Achilles. A truce is agreed, but will it hold? Helen faces a personal crisis as her relationship with Paris comes under strain. More 8 Offering The Trojans are stunned to discover that all that remains of the Greek army in Troy is an offering to the gods in the form of a wooden horse. They believe the war may finally be over, and celebrations begin. More Critic Reviews for Troy: Fall of a City Season 1 All Critics (24) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (7) There are several versions of this narrative on which to draw. But if only he had not made it all seem so tediously 21st century. Apr 17, 2019 | Full Review… Rachel Cooke New Statesman Top Critic The result is a series more competent than compelling. Apr 9, 2018 | Rating: B- | Full Review… Steve Greene indieWire Top Critic We haven't met Achilles yet, so there is plenty of time for things to get hysterical, but Troy: Fall of a City might just be a fresh, psychologically knotty take on one of the greatest tales of them all. Feb 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Rupert Hawksley Daily Telegraph (UK) Top Critic Still, this new eight-part series begins to grip as the various pieces interlock. Feb 20, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Suzi Feay Financial Times Top Critic From the bloody Caesarean birth at the start of the story, to the vivid depiction of ancient sports, this is a respectful, grown-up retelling of the myth. Apr 17, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Christopher Stevens Daily Mail (UK) Early enthusiasm is liable to fade in the face of the beige-ish characterisations and mundane dialogue with which [David] Farr has littered his stage, while a largely unknown cast lacking big personalities who might dominate the screen doesn't help much. Apr 17, 2019 | Full Review… Adam Sweeting The Arts Desk David Farr, best known for adapting John le Carré's The Night Manager, has chiselled this fresh take on one of the oldest stories of all. Apr 16, 2019 | Full Review… David Butcher Radio Times Troy: Fall of a City is in the enviable position of feeling both cultured and entertaining at the same time. Apr 16, 2019 | Full Review… Alex Mullane Digital Spy Ultimately, however, it's precisely this over-amped drama that makes Troy such a guilty pleasure. Give yourself an episode or two to acclimatise to the cheesiness, suspend as much disbelief as you can, then let the swords and sandals carry you away. Apr 17, 2019 | Full Review… Tim Elliott Sydney Morning Herald Top Critic This is a good-looking show with a clear sense of what it wants to be and how it wants to go about re-telling this story. Apr 16, 2019 | Full Review… Juliette Harrisson Den of Geek View All Critic Reviews (24) Audience Reviews for Troy: Fall of a City: Season 1 Jul 11, 2019 Black Achilles? Really? One of the most famous heroes of greek history? That's like getting Benedict Cumberbatch to play Shaka Zulu.. Toby T Jun 15, 2019 El negro de Aquiles no transmite nada con sus gestos de mrd Enserio malogran al personaje aparte de negro lo vuelven gay? No jodan John H Jun 12, 2019 artmadalena27 July 2018 I just couldn't believe what I was watching in Netflix. This series is so wrong, so outrageously disrespectful to Homer's immortal Illiad that I had to write this review. The directors-writers-producers-whatever and whoever they were (-like a gang-) seem to have deliberately chosen to disfigure the masterpiece - perhaps the highest work of literature ever created. A cultural murder was, apparently, perpetrated in this "Troy-The Fall of a City". Just about every actor is miscast, starting with Paris/Alexander himself who does not look any bit "in love " with Helen at all! As he prepares to go back to Troy I got a feeling that Helen hid herself in that coffin out of boredom, not really for love - neither she, nor he seems to have been taken by the turmoil of an intense passion. Paris is such a modern boy ! Does he like soccer? Videogames? And Helen, though quite pretty, could not possibly be "...the most beautiful woman of the world" promised by Aphrodite. Ah!... Aphrodite promised. But didn't deliver... A certain discomfort invades the viewer from the start as he is confronted with so much bad acting, bad casting, bad timing in the events. Sorry to say that - but it MUST be said - Achilles SHOULD be someone hairy and blond - like a lion, as Homer explicitly wrote in his story. Achilles was "golden" like a lion! Nestor, an important character in the Illiad looks just like a street dweller that I see everyday somewhere in Rio de Janeiro where I live. Why this ? BBC managed to offend Homer, the Greeks, and all of humanity who read this immortal tale of war and love. AS some reviewers already noted, this awful TV series made the movie "Troy" (which contains many mistakes) with Brad Pitt, Eric Bana and lovely Diane Kruger shine like a jewel forever!!!! Douglas M May 09, 2019 I too have a problem with other races playing Greek historica/mythological figures. It's just weird and wrong. Like many have said, you can't have a white dude playing MLK jr...a nation's hero. Who do you think Achilles is? A Greek hero. It's just wrong Jason T May 07, 2019 Bad, just bad. Story, Alexander complete idiot, king of Troy - old fool, black greeks??!! Have you checked ancient art? Viacheslav Z Apr 13, 2019 Almost everything according homers iliada and oddysey accept of the black achilles. Are they serious? Without being a racist but thats really unacceptable. Next time netflix we will see a blonde mohammed ali. Mar 21, 2019 Black Achilles? I wonder if they know that Achilles was Greek... The level of suspension of belief and historical fact is so great, it makes this completely unwatchable. Sal C Feb 22, 2019 Horrible, pure rape and butchering of the Greek culture. Why dont they make Samurais look white or black? Why wont they let an Asian or a white actor play martin Luther King? Why is it ok to rape MY culture? As Greek i am offended. Lina H Feb 13, 2019 This shit violates my cultural rights and makes me racist. Denis%20 D Jan 22, 2019 Don't know why lots of people doesn't like it. This is definitely worth watching. Vignesh V See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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