Deadliest Warrior 

The great warriors of history are examined for fantasy combat simulations.

Stars:

Geoff Desmoulin, Armand Dorian, Max Geiger

Cast

Series cast summary:
Geoff Desmoulin	...	Himself - Host / ... 33 episodes, 2009-2011
Armand Dorian	...	Himself / ... 29 episodes, 2009-2011
Max Geiger	...	Himself - Computer Programmer / ... 23 episodes, 2009-2010

Storyline

Throughout history, there have been great warriors who have made their mark in battle, but how they could have matched up against each other is a mystery. This series endeavors to solve that mystery with various matchups of such warrior classes. With a systematic examination of their physical and cultural qualities, training and weapons, a field of experts strive to find the real facts of such warriors. When the research is compete, each episode ends with a simulated battle to see who is truly the deadliest warrior.

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Plot Keywords:

warrior | combat | simulation | soldier | weapons testing | 

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Taglines:

Only one will be crowned...Deadliest Warrior

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Genres:

Action | Game-Show | History

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Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 March 2009 (USA)

Also Known As:

El guerrero más letal

Filming Locations:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

44 Blue Productions,Morningstar Entertainment

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min (TV)

Sound Mix:

Dolby SR

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This show first aired April 2009. It quickly became the number one show on Spike.

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Quotes

[repeated line]
Narrator: Who will be the deadliest warrior?

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Connections

Referenced in Chivalry: Deadliest Warrior (2013)

User Reviews

Decent Entertainment

Deadliest Warrior turns out to be decent schlock entertainment, but like many good contemporary shows, turns out to be fairly informative. The notion that you could actually determine who is the deadliest warrior in history is silly, not because they compare warriors from completely different times who could've never met anyway, but rather because the match-ups are all out of context -- Gladiator vs. Apache? C'mon.

The show features a few regulars and then some guest warriors who specialize not only in knowledge of the particular warriors but who also are masters of the particular fighting styles and weapons of their particular historical warrior as well. The two different modern warrior groups usually trash-talk each other in goofy machismo fashion; I think they're being serious but it's good for a laugh.

Each show demonstrates the period weapons and their capability against fairly realistic human analogs. For instance, they smash in the head of a dummy with a tomahawk, and the dummy is a simulated skull with simulated brain matter surrounded by ballistics gel. When the skull flies apart, so does the brain matter; it's pretty graphic even though it's just a dummy. There are a few extremely impressive demonstrations of skill by the guest warriors, so that's cool to see.

The "computer program" they run at the end to determine who would win the most times out of 1000 appears to be some cheesy spreadsheet. I'm sure there's more to it, but they offer zero in terms of methodology, adding to the goofiness. The final battle simulation at the very end is pretty cool though, and it nicely ties in all of the weapons that were tested in the lab.

In all, I gave this show a 7 because despite several cornball facets to it, it really is entertaining to watch, occasionally funny, pretty interesting and -- the best part -- informative. I watch it with my two middle-school sons and they love it, and the show always evokes some good discussions of martial history between us. Oh, and although I can find no indication of who the narrator is, it sounds exactly like David Wenham from 300.