So obviously Macbeth is going to have some great shows since he already has a best selling play after him, but what would they be........ I took the liberty of Resurrecting him from the dead and forced him to binge watch Netflix with me and well here is what he suggested:
Number 5: BEOWULF
This may seem like a blast from the past, but the animated Beowulf has allot to say when being compared to Macbeth, In Beowulf the Scandinavian hero fights monsters, makes a secret deal with an Angelina Jolie monster ( this is actually a deviation from the book, if you haven't guessed already), and fights dragons. Macbeth really liked Beowulf, for many reasons, and in both works, both the characters were forced to hide a secret from their closest companions, those being Beowulf having a baby with a demon and Macbeth deceiving others about his murders. Both characters also portray a tragic flaw, those being, arrogance, greed, and just pure bloodlust. The main one is of course arrogance, which Macbeth portrays while fighting Macduff and thinking of himself as invincible, while Beowulf portrayed this during his fight with the dragon( He also screams his name out a lot... and I mean A LOT). This great series really intrigued Macbeth by letting him think back to his barbaric roots, which valued heroism and sea monster slaying; he told that he would give anything if I gave him my Netflix password, which did seem tempting, but then again i wouldn't wanna see my recently watched shows as random Lord of the rings movies.
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| One might wonder how this even is possible, but then again it is Beowulf..SO...eh source |
Number 4: The Walking Dead
I don't know why Macbeth likes this show but he apparently does, besides being possible one of the most overrated shows extant, certain characters and/or characteristics in this show astonishingly resemble Macbeth. The first of which is the aspect of power grabbing; Shane who was the Protagonists friend eventually tried to turn on him in order to consolidate power. The show is set in a post zombie apocalyptic world, where every person is trying to survive, and those that form groups have the best chance of staying alive. This setting is infact very similar to scotland in the twelfth century, in that it was hard to stay fed an alive, however just like Macbeth many characters try to take over certain positions of power by murdering those close to them.Another characters similar to Macbeth is the Governor Philip, pretty much goes insane and kills everyone who opposed him even his own soldiers, which eventually led to his down fall, there were also many characters that abandoned him and joined others in disposing, this is very similar to what happens when the english try to attack Macbeth and to drive him from his thrown, due to his tyranny. Macbeth might wanna choose this since it shows how characters similar to him actually succeed in carrying out their evil plots, and triumphing over good, rather than having themselves decapitated.
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| The Governor vs Rick source |
Number 3:
This epic BBC drama was one of Macbeth's all time favorites, since it portrayed the legendary king Arthur as well as Merlin the wizard( except for the fact that it's nothing like Le Morte D'Arthur, and that its from Merlin's perspective). In this drama many scenes take place in Scotland, which is a part of the legendary land of Albion, and the main character Merlin is Prince Arthur's servant that is forced to hide the fact that he is a magician from his master, since magic was outlawed by King Uther. It clearly obvious why Macbeth liked this show, for one it's in Scotland, and secondly it a rises a kind of sick Humor within him, since the main character is a magician who always get beat up, and well lets say that Macbeth isn't the best fan of magic and fate out there, thus he got a couple of weird laughs through the series. However the concept of fate plays huge role in both works in which Merlin's destiny was to let Arthur rise as a powerful, wise, and beneficent ruler, that was also tolerant of magic,, thus Merlin was driven to go to great links to save Arthur as well as train to get stronger. while Macbeth, was eventually driven to kill his friend and begin a reign of great corruption. I guess Macbeth sees a little bit of Merlin within himself.
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| He is really good at keeping secrets as you can see. source |
Number 2: Arrow
This show created by DC Comics to tell the tale of the Green arrow is probably the show that got Macbeth jumping off the couch and shooting arrows at me.In this show Oliver Queen, aka Green Arrow, was an ivy league dropout that crashed on a pacific island and was forced to survive their, and learning great skills, such as those gnarly bow midair shots, and crazy workout. The character that is Oliver Queen greatly intrigued Macbeth since they both had crazy secrets that involved murder,( and yes Green Arrow was a murderer and he killed more people than Macbeth); it was also intriguing that Macbeth seemed to feel better about himself when he learned the green arrow probably killed a multitude of people, through different crazy methods. Macbeth also seemed to relate to the fact that most of Oliver's words were equivocations, that meant something to the audience and to Oliver, but referred to something completely different to the ignorant party, like Oliver's old girlfriend might ask him about the condition her new boyfriend, who is evil, and Oliver would say that they won't be seeing each other for a long time, which is morbidly funny since he shot the guy in the eye( HA HA HA).Aspects of Masculinity are also heavily portrayed in Arrow, since the character needed to reach a certain point in training(both mentally and physically) in order to be strong enough to escape the island, and Macbeth, seems to like that aspect since he lacked in confidence at first, just like Oliver, who was afraid to kill a bird in order to survive, but later had no problem with taking life.
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| This guy is literally ripped HAHAHA get it, cause his skin is ripped... nevermind source |
This show is my, and Macbeth's, all time favorite. This show tells the story of man who as a child saw his mother killed, and now he is a serial killer. The show is divided into eight seasons in which each season revolves around a specific murder case, with many small murders in between, and the main character Dexter uses his genius skills ( by the way this isn't Dexter laboratory, just clearing any misconceptions) in order to solve the case and then kill the killer, in order to feed his "dark passenger" as he calls it. Macbeth really likes the how Dexter covers up his murders, and the fact that Dexter works at the police department, gives him access to security files, and is less likely to blame, makes it more interesting. The character heavily uses equivocations and talks to himself a lot, in which he sometimes explains the meaning of the equivocations in his head. for example a police officer might say "well, looks like our chances of catching this killer just drowned," and Dexter would say in his head " ya literally" since he disposes the bodies in the ocean. Macbeth also enjoyed the fact that Dexter, like him, sometimes acts impulsively and does a quick job of killing the killers just when the police arrive at the door. A number of people in the show also suspected Dexter of being "unnaturally weird" and almost figured out his secret, but Dexter takes no chances and disposes of them too in often clever ways, in which he doesn't kill them directly, but rather pins his crimes on them , and then they get killed by the police.This reminded Macbeth of his dear old friend Banquo and and he had a few laughs reminiscing how he got rid of him too. The most important of all however is that they are both Serial Killers (Yeah), and as Dexter defines it "a serial killer is a person that kills more than two people". Macbeth liked the fact that if Dexter was alive at this time that he would have killed him; He told me that it sent shivers down his spine.
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| HA HA ... Im sure i will Dexter...Im sure i will source |
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