Barbaren season 2

 The german historical based series is back for a second season on Netflix, so me and Noshi sat down and watched through it.

Though I must say, at times I struggled to follow the series, even though Thusnelda makes up for a lot.

A year has passed since the battle in the forest, and Thusnelda and Ari, who have moved the tribe, are now a happy couple with a little baby boy.  But the Romans haven't left, and Ari seeks to unite the Reik's once again to take battle to their doorstep before more legions arrive.

But betrayed by Marbod, who is in league with Ari's younger brother Flavius and his lover, Ari is captured by the Romans.  He escapes with the help of Thusnelda, Folkwin and Dido, and takes his son along.  This results in issues with Thusnelda as he never told her he had a son, while the child he has with her is actually Folkwin`s, but he is not allowed to know.  Gaius, his son, still craves for Rome, and as his uncle is caught by Marbod, he gets in league with him to get the heads of all the Reik's.

During the council to appoint Marbod king of the tribes, an ambush is set up and many loose their lives, including Marbod's wife.  This makes him see there is no peace possible with Rome, and he summons his army.  But as Thusnelda and Folkwin ride out to gather them, Gaius finds them, having decided to not thrust the Romans anymore either as they abandoned him after the council, and he shows them a huge fleet of Romans approaching over the river.

They decide to attack the Roman camp before the ships arrive, in the hopes they will turn back then.  The plan succeeds, even though they suffer a great personal loss as Folkwin falls to Germanicus.  Sensing trouble though, Thusnelda rides to the village, to find her parents having betrayed them and giving her boy to the Romans.  She herself is taken as well to Rome as her parents are killed by the Romans...

So that is an open ending, and now it is only to hope for a third season will be greenlighted and made of this story, based on the Arminicus that defeated three Roman legions in the Teutogen Forest (season 1) and now deals with the wash-out of this.