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Troy: Fall of a City

★ 4.2 17K votes 2018–2018 1 season · 8 episodes Ended BBC One
War & militaryArmed conflict and the soldier's experience.This show: 8/10Love storyA love story as the engine of the show, not a side plot.This show: 8/10Period pieceSet meaningfully in a past era.This show: 8/10Tight limited runA compact, complete story told in just a few episodes.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Louis HunterChristiaan SchoombieBella DayneChloe PirrieJohnny HarrisDavid Gyasi
Written by
David Farr
Starring
Louis HunterChristiaan SchoombieBella DayneChloe PirrieJohnny HarrisDavid Gyasi
Written by
David Farr
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
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"Ancient myth retold with soap-opera earnestness"

This BBC/Netflix miniseries retells the Trojan War from its spark, the affair between Paris and Helen, through to the city's destruction. It moves through myth's greatest hits: divine meddling, doomed romance, Achilles' rage, Hector's honor, all rendered with earnest, glossy costume-drama seriousness. The pace is slow for a war epic, dialogue often stilted, and the tone swings between soap opera and tragedy without settling. Visually it has some scale and ambition, and mythology fans may enjoy seeing familiar beats dramatized, but it rarely achieves the sweep or menace the story deserves.

Watch it for

the ambitious attempt to dramatize the entire Trojan War myth in one continuous arc.

Maybe skip if

you want a fast, gritty war epic rather than a slow-burn mythological romance.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12018
5.34K87h 43m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1Black Blood5.2
82959 min
▶2Conditions5.4
65858 min
▶3Siege5.3
55758 min
▶4Spoils of War5.2
53458 min
▶5Hunted4.9
48757 min
▶6Battle on the Beach5.4
47257 min
▶7Twelve Days5.3
42558 min
▶8Offering5.6
45758 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Louis Hunter Paris
Christiaan Schoombie Troilus
Bella Dayne Helen, Helen of Troy
Chloe Pirrie Andromache
Johnny Harris Agamemnon
David Gyasi Achilles
Jonas Armstrong Menelaus
Alfred Enoch Aeneas
Lex King Aphrodite
Chris Fisher Deiphobus

Crew

David Farr

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