The new Syfy channel adventure series Olympus looks like 300 as shot for a green-screen-heavy eyesore that still manages to charm for being so devotedly shoddy. It takes talent to make such an uppercase-"e" epic, which begins with our pretty-boy hero — named Hero (Tom York), natch — waking up in the underground cavern of a towering cyclops with a severed-foot fetish. After the well-placed throw of a bladed boomerang, Hero escapes and finds, in a nearby grotto, three imprisoned women, one of whom is an Oracle (Sonya Cassidy) he's been searching for. In my opinion Olympus is the best modern Greek drama that we have seen thus far. I myself cannot understand so much of the negative commentary I have heard on the internet from some of the audience members. I have watched the first episode in its entirety and have not picked up any of the notions that it was somehow a Greek tragedy like some of the viewers have previously asserted. In fact it was fun, exciting, and suspenseful at the same time. Now my advice for future viewers is to make up your own mind and see the episode for yourself before you form your own opinion. Just because something is written on the internet doesn't mean it's true and it doesn't give it any special validity either. Bottom line it was so good that if I could I would go back and watch it all over again without hesitation.
Review of Olympus
