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Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Barbarians’ on Netflix, a German Quasi-Historical Action-Drama Series in Which People Kill and Have Sex With Each Other Barbarians  is a German Netflix series about ancient Germania, where tribes of, um, Germanians weren’t too thrilled to be under the thumb of the Roman empire. Like many shows before it, it has blood and sex and a tenuous grip on history — and probably a built-in audience of people who eat up this kind of stuff like NASCAR tailgaters at a pig roast. Now let’s see if it’ll stick to your ribs. BARBARIANS : STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot:  A boy runs through the woods, playfully shouting, “The wolf is coming!” The Gist:  Teutoberg Forest, a coupla centuries ago. Thusnelda (Jeanne Goursaud) is instructed by her father to stop being happy and let him sell her to the chief of another Germanic tribe. Daddy will get five horses and an alliance; she’ll get a lifetime of subservience. Such is the state of feminism in 9 A.D. It’s also a ti...