ARES Ending Explained! | Netflix
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- čas přidán 19. 01. 2020
- Netflix's latest horror television show Ares from the Netherlands has one of the craziest endings ever so I take a deep dive and explain, recap, and review the final episode.
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Did anyone else get massive CARRIE vibes from the ending?
please do a video about Stephen King's The outsider
They canceled watchmen , REACT
Yes! I also felt a Suspiria's vibe. Excelent!
No
Yesss
What did I just binge-watch.
My thoughts EXACTLY. This is the truest comment ever.
def binged it 😂🤦♂️
Avidor Torgeman I finished it in one day
Why did I find this comment so funny
I binged it too. The ending was definitely a bit confusing for me.
I am surprised you didn't notice that when you turn the logo of Ares upside down it resembles the logo of the VOC (Dutch East India Company)
Thomas H correct I saw that the first time the logo was shown.
@@LocovsworldNL This Dutch minerva . Bohimain grove. End of voc mentalitie. The Dutch robed 160 of 179 countries the world is wakking up. End of secret society. In the serie they spit black stuff. In real the drink blood. Cremation of Care. This is illuminati. Bilderberg group skull and bones. The oder of deaht. Bush cabal. Yale university. So from amsterdam the netherlands where all this evil shit comes from. Wwg1wga Q ... 2Q2Q no dems (demons) left quick trails quick death. Wwg1wga Q
@@LocovsworldNL the A is a try angel. 666
@@STAATSLID *wtf.*
But the slave trade was about the W.I.C. and not the V.O.C.
What a way to throw the Netherland's background into everyone's face
Lilac
Let’s see how many countries had to do with slavery ...
@@MalditoLocaDeLosMina And if it was just slavery..
@MoJean Dutch person here. Things are changing for the better when it comes to 'zwarte piet' but it's still a slow process. Every year around sinterklaas you'll have a lot of people make excuses regarding zwarte piet, and often the way they go about it comes with a subtle hint of racism as well. I do think some people are just simple minded and see it as a mere tradition and a children's holiday, but it makes you wonder if they are ignoring the history on purpose and why they aren't willing to listen to black people who are against it. But guess it's the same for sexism still. As a woman you call it out and then you'll have a man explain to you what sexism means and why you're wrong. Hopefully we'll stray away from the full black paint, red lips, and afro wigs in the upcoming years. People often make the excuse that black pete is black because of the chimney dust, but it doesn't explain all the other racist elements. The alternative that you saw a lot last year is much better imo. People having a couple black lines on their face that represent chimney dust and it's obvious that they aren't supposed to represent black people.
@@OpheliaNL The alternative you see on TV is just the political correct version, as dictated by the Amsterdam elites. They report about it as if it is the only version, just because it is aired on state television, which is not reality.
Reality is that the other 99% of the Netherlands are having a great time partying with their friends, the true Zwarte Pieten.
@@OpheliaNL In the Netherlands there's many cultures with traditions that are wrong, such as arranged child marriages, circumsizing women and children and slaughtering animals in the most painful ways (halal), but those people are never asked to change their traditions.
The Dutch however have to change their cultures and traditions to make all other cultures feel at home.
There's only two countries in the world that celebrate Saint Nicholas: The Netherlands and Belgium.
If people think Zwarte Piet is so offensive, why don't they move to other countries that don't celebrate Saint Nicholas.
It is bizarre how immigrants think they can dictate the indigenous Dutch how to live in their own country.
Race/slavery is definitely a bigger part of the show than this video examines. Rosa being biracial and her dad entering Ares over the corpses of guiltless whites... that's HUGE and pretty amazing symbolism.
Incredible
@@qm8702 WHat about the africans that sold fellow africans into slavery???? WHat about the africans that even today have slaves??? I would like history to be correct and not just be some anti white propaganda.
@@albertcook your people are telling their story leave it to the quote on quote "Africans" to tell theirs.
@@albertcook What about-ism is Beal 😂
there should be some black african slave dealers in the mix too once they sold their own people 🤔 but ok. The show is trash anyway
The dude took his face off not to face his own guilt.
Rosa took on everyone's guilt (new and old from centuries ago)and unleashed it upon them. Most of that guilt (Bael) was all the horrific things that the secret society was releasing to Bael since its creation. Instead of adding to the guilt and making Ares Stronger by forgetting it. She decided to take on the guilt, unleash it to its members (so they could remember what they had done) and ultimately destroy the foundation that it was built on. The old world has no place in the new Times anymore, so therefore it must be destroyed. The old woman may symbolize the old world and the chains are a representation of her guilt because of the enslavement, murder and greed the organization was founded on. Rosa is the representation for the New world (CHANGE). The society thought that Rosa would rise threw the ranks to become president so they could manipulate and control a new generation. Jacob said that Rosa needed to release Bael, NOT CONTINUE TO ADD TO THE GUILT, Murder and LIES BUT SET IT FREE... This is all just my interpretation. Hopefully season 2 will reveal much more.
Excellent explanation. You got that right.
Better the watching the video 😂 thanks for the excellent insight
But do you really need to shove your ass into the camera though? Girl, you can be sexy but also classy/non-revealing, just saying, friendly advice... Unless you're searching for some sugar daddy or another of those creeps roaming the Internet... Take care.
Eugeniya Leshenko wtf
@@yevgeniyaleshchenko849 why does her profile picture has anything to do with the subject. Also what if her ass is on the pic, jesus christ let people do what they want, she ain’t harming anyone lmao.
Glad someone was able to explain what the hell was happening at the end, I was so confused. Good work man.
You didn't get it?
The old lady in chains is the old Netherlands. (She was speaking old Dutch) The chains are the guilty things the white men in power did in the name of her-Netherlands. These things kept the country bounded by its guilty ties which kept her alive for so long. That man was the only 1 able to speak to her, Netherlands, because the white men in power were the only ones who controlled the Netherlands and, therefore, knew first hand what was really happening and told everyone else a lie. Teaching them it’s necessary to make lies to get what they want but was really meant to create order by making sure he and the ones he has chosen were protected and ultimately continue to get what they want.
Well put!
This totally makes sense... thanks
domrepvega yes!
That's what I got as well:)
Bro this is symbolic for what's about to happen in this world. Eventually the European will have their crimes put before their faces...
I think slavery was the original sin of Ares. The imagery through out the show supports this. The old lady probably represents Ares, old, white and chained by guilt. Rosa being biracial is a large part of why she did not give up her pain/guilt, the pain is what was passed down from her ancestors. Her father was able to hug her because he’s black and therefore understands her pain and her experiences. Just my interpretation
So typical white man bad, white man only do bad so he must be guilty. While every other race and nation participates in the same stuff.
@@capitalizingcapitalist1202 So? Yeah, white people did good and bad, same for other countries and cultures, but you can't deny that we in the west fucked over many of those countries and cultures to get where we are now. Just because there is a bad side to history such as wars, slavery, exploitation, etc.. doesn't mean that it somehow was the same for all the nations who participated, we got a lot more out of it than the rest of the world. There are enough movies out there that celebrate what white people have done in history, why not go watch one of those instead?
Racism is still very much alive in the Netherlands and it comes out even worse during Sinterklaas when there are debates about ''zwarte piet''. Slavery is part of our history and there are almost no Dutch films or tv-series about the subject. I think the way they went about it in Ares was pretty well done. I do think it was a bit repetitive at times and dragged out certain parts, but it certainly got the message across.
Well I’m from France and we Gauls we were slaves to the Romans. I don’t get some weird slavery flashback and don’t give a fuck. I think it’s racist to say that because someone is black their ancestors must have been slaves and that slavery is in their genes. Just my opinion tho
You just made me lol suggesting her father could hug her bc he was also black!!!!! That’s definitely not it.
Everyone is racist to a certain extend if they like to admit it or not. It is a human characteristic. Not a good one but its there. It is our own struggle to do the right thing. Let me explain what I think is the cause of the Sinterklaas struggle. We in the Netherlands are expected to be receptive to all cultures since diversity is "mandatory" so it seems. Thus everything outside of Netherlands we must except as beautiful and a great thing. But our own culture is under attack from the likes of you. And when people see something like Sinterklaas being described as racist they are in shock. And see it as I do as an innocent children's fest. No one every saw Black piet as a dark person but as a man coming down the chimney to clarify in context.
So be called a racist like you so easily is the most painfully wrong approach to the problem. Those people are not the racist you claim them to be but feel pushed into a corner and they will lash out. Also I think in context again the term racist should be put on a real issue instead of this easy term. It has lost its meaning. Slavery should be in the canon of the Netherlands it is a fact and should be addressed. But I never feel guilty like many of those woke leftist do since I had no control over it. And then again my father grew up in a very poor time so we have not all benefited from the slavery from hundreds of years ago. So that is a myth in itself. I liked the show nevertheless I think there is still something there but the woke shit has to go as it is a trend mostly hailing in Amsterdam these days.
I wish there's a prequel season 2, of how rosa's mom got out of the society.
Raven Locks I hope so to
Do you think there will be a pt.2?
That's what I want to know.also..
@@Moloc2230 They're talking about it now, but personally I don't see how they can continue this. I liked it, but with that theme + ending a SE2 would kill the story imo.
Just watched this. Brilliant series. A definite must-see and one of the best shows I have seen on netflix for sure. It's captivating, intriguing and not predictable like most shows/films. It touches on a lot of topics. If you watch it without seeing any reviews, it's far better so you can interpret it freely. It's a masterpiece. It reminded me of something Jordan Peele would write and he is a genius.
Jorden peele is a SJW race baiting idiot
There will be more and more shows of that sort. Until the guilt of the western world is purged out IRL
@@ruthless0ne This Dutch minerva . Bohimain grove. End of voc mentalitie. The Dutch robed 160 of 179 countries the world is wakking up. End of secret society. In the serie they spit black stuff. In real the drink blood. Cremation of Care. This is illuminati. Bilderberg group skull and bones. The oder of deaht. Bush cabal. Yale university. So from amsterdam the netherlands where all this evil shit comes from. Wwg1wga Q ... 2Q2Q no dems (demons) left quick trails quick death. Wwg1wga Q
@felony jones STFU clown 😂 have you seen what he did to twilight zone reboot! He trashed it every episode is about race baiting sjw BS and what not. Even his movies are about black victim mentality BS. Fuck that fool and his BS views.
@@ruthless0ne
And yet here you are... triggered over a tv show. 🙄
The old lady is probably century's old. I think this due to the fact that she speaks really old Dutch, me as a Dutchman couldn't even understand her. She has probably seen all the bad things Ares did in the past and that could make her a treath against Ares or that could make her a weapon in one way or another. The reason why she doesn't age is still a big mystery for me.
The old lady is the Netherlands itself. Ares serves her. And at the same time keeps her in captivity. But she wants a new time to come.
I think if there is a season 2, it will be placed in the past. There doesn't seem to be much content left moving forward, (I can't imagine a show about a lady in a catsuit walking around making people feel guilty) but if we went back to the origins of the organization, or further explained the old lady then I can see there being a ton of content left for the show.
Joseph Dittrich this would be awesome. Probably not enough budget to pull it off but we can all hope
She will become president back to normal appearance and have world domination ...antichrist
@@Jose-pk3zm whats wrong with you.. anti-christ wtf?
Never ever underestimate us Dutchmen 😅 We will give you something to think about.
If you want extra evil as well as slavery, I wondered whether the "black water" (actually more viscous than that) was supposed to make us think of oil? It's never mentioned explicitly but of course the Dutch Empire in Indonesia was in at the very start of the global oil business with the Royal Dutch Petroleum Company (now Shell) in the 1890s (as of course were the British, French and Americans). Maybe something for season 2?
Very good to know, thank you for the insight
This was such a freaky series. I am interested in seeing a season 2 that answers some of our questions.
time will tell
Netflix gonna renew garbage but not this or Marianne
@@mihirmalaviya5956
They are renewing it. It’s said to come out fall of 2021
@@melanindonnaricca9645 link to the article please all I see online is possible but not sure
@@melanindonnaricca9645 Here in 2022 still no season 2😅
The chained person is the manifestation of guilt and the sin of Ares - slavery!
🤣
Exactly rt
I understand and appreciate this video, however I think this video misses the fact that show mainly is a social commentary on the Netherland’s dark past in slavery. The chained entity is a symbol for chained slaves and the fact Rosa is biracial had so much to do with it. Thank you for your thorough analysis though, definitely subscribing
Saqar Khaleefah yeah I agree that was the one part of this analysis that was missed out on. I feel that was the point that ARES was built on these racist foundations and paints a picture of the way society works
This show is really good! Something you never seen before.. completely original. must watch!
9:03 we don’t need to see everything we seen him kill a baby like it was nothing
She has the classical dutch witch look. She gives them the ability to puke their guilt away. She did this when she got caught probably, and only now through the friend or rosa was able to reach rosa which was an excellent canidate to stop the misuse of her power.
What if she was a witch? What if she is the embodiment of shame the Dutch felt at persecuting women of knowledge and spiritual Enlightenment and they kept her around for her abilities instead of outright killing her. Much like how misogynistic the world its, but still keeps women around for our procreational abilities rather than outright murdering us all. Like use them, dont let us be emancipated, but treat them as inferiors too
It is interesting that he did not talk about the vision Jacob had in the catacombs when he touched Rosa. Beal and her chained together and doused in guilt. This is a vital part of the story and ultimately a prophecy of what is to come for Rosa. All throughout the season, it was evident to me that Rosa was not just a curious "Alice" in the netherland of Ares, thus her immediate willingness and rise to power. Going with the flow of events allowed her to become the personification of guilt, though it was clear her character knew much more than what the story tells up to this point.
She became a demon. Only Demons can kill monsters. Only Demons rule for a long history over evil.
I'm really amazed that no one mentions the guy, who is one of the most important ares members, who led the girl at the beginning of the series to suicide never committing suicide when faced with Beal (his guilt). Instead he watches as she passes.
Yep, I wonder as well
This makes me think about Eyes Wide Shut movie and this is a more detailed look into those Heirs in that secret society...Bael is clearly Baal which is a spirit... That spirit went into Rosa but she had to be reborn and baptized in uncleanness to become that demonic entity.
yup Stanley Kubrick knew...
Rich Johnson I’ll have to check the show out....thanks
The most confusing ending I've ever watched. By far.
the sopranos was the craziest
fr im Dutch and I didn’t really understand it..
Slavery bad.
it’s really not that confusing though. she was drenched in everyone’s grief and evil, (that’s what beal, the black stuff, is) and basically made everyone kill themselves because they couldn’t handle having the guilt. the slavery and history aspects is basically saying that the beal was first started hundreds of years ago, all the evil that has been happened aka slavery. there are some stuff that is confusing but the overall aspect really isn’t
I still don't understand why the first girl killed herself... Was it because of her guilt? We didn't see her killing anyone. So many questions.
Riiiight
Guilt
Because of the the sacrifices they had to take to join. Mind you the true guilt was within their forefathers
The first girl was probably the first of the suicides that began the "instability" Maurits mentioned in the final episode.
She was also raped by a dude who turned out to be a higher up in Ares. Having to live with keeping it a secret that someone with so much power is a rapist and likely preys on other young recruits is hard too.
If you want to look into the history of Ares you could just look at the history of Holland from the Golden Age. Ares resembles an organisation equal to the VOC. Try to put the logo of Ares upsidedown for example.
This Dutch minerva . Bohimain grove. End of voc mentalitie. The Dutch robed 160 of 179 countries the world is wakking up. End of secret society. In the serie they spit black stuff. In real the drink blood. Cremation of Care. This is illuminati. Bilderberg group skull and bones. The oder of deaht. Bush cabal. Yale university. So from amsterdam the netherlands where all this evil shit comes from. Wwg1wga Q ... 2Q2Q no dems (demons) left quick trails quick death. Wwg1wga Q
luca tomaello The W.I.C. was about the slave trade, not the V.O.C.
@@hr9106 The voc was the first multinational in the world.
The benches on the Herengracht ran the banks in New York .. Waal straat. Wall street . Breukelen brooklin. Amsterdam aveneu. new Amsterdam. The voc started the slave trade. check the series ares on netflix. its all about the Voc .. minerva is going down . Wwg1wga Q
@@STAATSLID you know this is not a documentary right? And that black people were selling blackpeople before that empire?
I was half expecting Rosa's dad sprout out wings to reveal that he's an angel.
Since the movie portrays o lot symbolisms and representations, the old woman depicts the Holland itself as a excolonial country that build it empire during the golden age through greed,murder and enslavery. In order to keep the country prosperous the elite has to change to keep Holland wealthy .New leaders, methods and ideas need to emerge. Rosa represents those principles. She is young ambitious and mix race. She has to destroy the old society which represents the elite and the policymakers.
in the original version the old woman speaks old dutch, idk how the dubs tackled this
Just hear me out but what if the immortal old lady is Ares or the first member of Ares.
Mànuello that’s what I thought cause she was alive when the main old dude was first president as a young boy!
@@talaya.music99 That is a fact! Hopefully if we get a season 2 I hope they will give us more details about this old lady.
Almost sounds inspired by the trilogy of Dario Argento of the Three witch mothers. There the witches are a power source of a coven which dominates with that world affairs
The old lady is the Netherlands itself. Ares serves her. And at the same time keeps her in captivity. But she wants a new time to come.
Suddenly an ending explained video. I didn't even know this show exist LOL
I feel like a dutch person should explain this tho, when i watched the ending it was a bit obvious and very understandable to be fair... So many references and hints showing where this series was going
The hints were more obvious as it got closer to the end, like the last 2 episodes really, that's where I think they fumbled the ball because it just slapped it in your face rather than piecing it together.
@thephilosopher7173
Nah, it starts pretty fast. With the museum, them being old-old money. Some of the members being actively racist. The museum and them telling "oh my ancestors are in this painting from the same period as the VOC". The Swan too, with people having to die for the country. "Do you know what made this country so wealthy/powerful?" is dropped early and regularly.
Maybe it seems rushed for some, but the image of the chained person immediately reminded a lot of people of slaves on boats. So it is there, in the back of our minds. The collars everyone wears up high. The colors black and blue. The pearls even. Ocean, 1600's, black, chains, wealth. Everything is there on day one. Even her dad being Surinam is no secret.
As soon as I saw the slaves chained up on the ship my brain broke, and it all makes sense now
This show was so fucking disturbing, I love it!
Don’t know if we need a season 2; it felt wrapped up. Hopefully we see more Dutch original series! I love the Netherlands!
I think there is enough more to tell. About the bsckgrounds of it. How Rosas mother got freed. And more background on the old lady
Yesssssss
F4PTR 💕
I wanna know how ares originated. So we must go back 500 years. I hope they get a fuck ton of budget, because they’re gonna need it
I agree, I don't see how a SE2 isn't just gonna be a cash grab, but props to them because SE1 is great. The theme was kind of a let down but I get it, and the way they did it was subtle so I can't complain.
so, I'm dutch.
I think the translations didn't do the dialogue justice to me, but then again i don't think there were better translations either.
to me the ending was sort of expected. When the group stood in front of the nachtwacht in the rijksmuseum, they all pointed out their great-great-great(and so on) grandfathers. It's well known the men in the painting were rich buisnessmen investing in/active in slavery. As well as the Ares logo being an upside down VOC (the company whose ships that roamed the world for spices and participated in slaveryb) logo. It was very clear to me. I did grow up learning about our history of course, so the guess was only natural.
I think Beal was more than just slavery related. They clearly state it's older than amsterdam, maybe older than the land. The dutch trade in Slavery came after most cities were settled. I think slavery was just its most recent form, a sort of collective Big Sin,
and Rosa becoming the next, possibly a form that symbolizes how forgotton and put away the slavery trade has become. They call Beal the "doof-pot" after all, literally a place you dump your troubles and never hear from again.
yeah i feel for dutch people (like myself) the ending made a lot of sense, and was exactly like you said, and quite obvious
17 seconds in and I'm reminded why I love this channel, these intros are probably the best form of promo I've seen in a while. Not too much info, just enough to make me pause and binge the series lol
You wish they included more examples of what Ares did wrong in the past like slavery wasn’t enough? Lol. Stealing, selling, torturing humans to the point that effects on the same ppl are being felt 500 years later isn’t enough of an example of their treachery all in the name of power? It’s no coincidence that Rosa is a descendent of both Ares and the race it sold for prosperity. I appreciate your insight and enjoyed the series although horror isn’t usually my thing. I kept wondering where the plot was going... kept looking at Dante’s Inferno wondering if there was a tie-in between the levels of hell and what Ares expected of those new recruits. I’m wondering if something was lost in my lack of knowledge about Dutch culture and the underlying themes.
Lol I thought the same thing.
BlackGuyTV I hate being that person but lol 😂
2nd Round idk if this is what the makers of this show intended, but what I got after seeing the ending of the show was low key commentary on attitudes toward the past slave trade and racism in the Netherlands and other countries in Europe. Now I am not saying all European citizens are like this- but countries like the Netherlands, England, Portugal, France, Spain etc. don’t like to talk about the huge roles they played in the slave trade that brought them so much wealth and power. People in power in countries like those act almost like racism doesn’t exist in their countries and like they never participated in the slave trade. Like they have been able to just discard the guilt and pretend they didn’t get so much of their wealth and power by kidnapping, enslaving, and murdering people all over west Africa. To me, ‘beal’ and those entities were spiritual embodiments of the evil, pain, guilt, anger, etc a normal person SHOULD have participating in something so horrible. Maybe even a spiritual embodiment of all the victims of slavery that the world decided to ignore and forget about as if they didn’t matter or exist. I’m guessing Rosa was perhaps a descendent of one of those slaves and she finally freed the entities so ARES (founders of the Dutch East India Trading company) could finally meet face the ugly truth of their sins. The hug from her father at the end was so powerful to me. Like he knew what they were too.
@@Alexandra_K_wow you are so right but I didn't think of it like that, I live in a Commonwealth country so I get it 100%! Thanks for the insight.
2nd Round yes it’s the knowledge of the free masons and the ancient Egyptian mystery schools... look up ‘Arthur Cristian loveforlife’ ... also you should look into metaphysics and Islamic scholars, as well as witchcraft and MKULTRA... its all conncected... the black water being used is OIL
Ares was a god of war... what if she wages war against the guilty??
Could be really good if this happens in s2
This has been the best video explaining content about this series, well done and thank you for doing some research so we can get it better!
I'm just glad to see something different. And Netflix has been PUMPIN OUT SERIES AFTER SERIES. Some are good, others are ehhh, then u got the ones that shine. Also good to SEE NEW FACES. That's the BESThing Netflix has been Doin. Bring fresh talent.
Netflix has its problems, it makes a lot of crap, but it deserves applause for taking chances that no studio or network would take.
You nailed it! Its a shame that mistakes can be very expensive, but the reality is, you can cash in bigger with some of the risks you take. Netflix is getting the ball rolling though.
I just finished this series... impatiently waiting for season 2
The only bad ratings about this show are from sour viewers who think the only point of the show is "getting revenge on white people for slavery." The show is so much deeper than that. Essentially, it's about the subtle, historic pathology of the Dutch mentality; to conform, to succeed, to dominate and to perfect, and is a thorough exploration of how this impacts the millennial generation in the present day. The piece perfectly communicates the esoteric aspect of Dutch culture, and is a beautiful piece of magical realism, not simply a gratuitous horror show. It's aesthetic, political, symbolic and excellently paced and acted. If Dutch cinema funded by Netflix is going to be this good all the time, I can't wait for more.
Agreed. Most of the unfavourable dutch reviews i've read barely mention anything good about the film, it's all about how we are constantly forced to be reminded of our history and how white people are somehow under attack. It's interesting to me that a lot of people (mostly men) seem to take this personal, as if fingers are being pointed at them. All it does is remind us of our countries history, what is so wrong about that? During our formative years we're often taught about the Dutch ''golden age'' during history lessons, it's the reason why such a small country became such a powerhouse in the centuries to come. What's often not mentioned during these lessons is the horrible things the Netherlands did to achieve such power, at least it was like that for me.
Apartheid is a word that was rooted during the slave trade and it's no coincidence that it stems from the Dutch language.
I am so glad someone else gets it!!!
@@OpheliaNL because people like you always like that's the only aspect of Dutch history. No country ever became the greatest without doing bad things. To keep emphasizing it is annoying. The romans killed 200k wild tribesmen when they got here and to the Romans slavery was normal when you conquered someone else. Yet no one speaks about that. Why? Because it serves no point anymore. Too long ago. The Durch golden age is called Golden because of its worldwide influence. Invention of stock market you name it. Those things changed the future those things are achievements remembered. The only reason we have whiners who want to take all credit or get "revenge" by through victimization or demonization is because it's less long ago. Egypts pyramids built how? Slavery. But when the Egypt chapter is discussed we only talk about the greats and its rich culture. How about we start emphasizing Egypts wrongdoings with regards to slavery? Oh that farao of yours and his people were only rich because of slaves so basically your achievements are the credited to the slaves your people are evil go apologize. How will they take it lol. It's 2020 Rosa Steenwijk is mixed and you need to be reasonable and understand that after 100 apologies we are done with it and the rewiews gladly show it. Had expected it anyway since it's Amsterdam and capital cities are the breeding grounds for leftist self haters.
Hahaha excellently acted, good one
@@kiera6288 what for pointless reply is this?
True!!! The last episode is bewildering, hook up to think of the meaning which you have explained to the tee!
Great vid.
New sub here.
Just happened to binge watch this as I’ve turned into a slug on my couch from catching the flu. The line between my fever and what I was actually watching is way too blurred but tbh this was so worth the experience.
This review was outstanding. I really want to see this show now.
What's holding me back is knowing what happens.
@Rich Johnson thank you good sir, I will now give this show a try!
I watched the whole season 1 today on Netflix,love it! Love your review too.
Me 2 :)
2 things:
The Netherlands was never an empire since that would require an emperor.
Also something you wouldn’t have noticed unless you speak dutch. The old lady actually spoke in old dutch signifying her age
I wonder how they dubbed that part, and I wonder how many non Dutch/Flemish speakers watched it in Dutch. I watched Dark in German for example.
Tristan Isaac I’m american but I watched it in dutch. The dub actors voices usually aren’t that great on netflix. But this time i think the original actors did it for the English version but they kept the old dutch from the old women the same.
Not to be nitpicking, but was it really Old Dutch? That language hasn't been spoken since the 12th century. We barely even know what it must've sounded like. Seems much more likely that they were speaking Middle Dutch. I know the Netflix subtitles said Old Dutch, but Netflix' subtitles are often full of mistakes. I know it isn't a huge detail, but it's been bothering me so much that everyone is saying Old Dutch, while that would be 3 centuries off.
I’m Dutch and I didn’t even understand what she was saying. I did however recognize a few words
Great ending explanation, amazing show with gorgeous imagery. Truly hope for a 2nd season
Great breakdown, waiting to see what kind of script will emerge from your great mind.
Thanks this helped a lot!
AWESOMEEEEEEEEEE - more reviews plsss
the dutch: explaining slavery to itselves through slaves - catholic priests, take notice; alterboys, take cover...
still waiting on the zombie apokolypse
jacob doesnt tell rosa to kill him because hes being taken over by beal anyways, he says it because he knows rosa is the chosen one to free beal!!!
I think the black whirlpool is a dark vergence within The Force...
Really interesting concept in this show
I agree, there should have been clips beyond slave trade, though I'm sure the black goop is supposed to have connection to oil (Royal Dutch Shell, largest oil company)
Paul Gillett well... it was about slave trade, ánd the voc. thats why they only elaborated on that
actually this TIES TO ALIENS... WATCH prometheus and alien covenant
Loved the explanation, makes sense hope for the 3rd dseason.
Thanks Think Story. You are clutch.
I'm not impressed, I've been through this. And it's why I never became an Eagle Scout.
They had nothing on the Girls Scouts. Troop 18756...
I was a gay scout and I loved every second of it 🌈
geyScouts smfh
theylied1776 😂
U did a great job explaining
Ty!!!! That was perfect explanation
What’s Soooo crazy is celebrities, judges, lawyers, mega super stars are still doing this to get rich and famous and to stay rich and famous. Is it really worth your soul?
I was lost af the entire show🤦🏽♀️😭
Same 😭😭
Sameeee
@@christinaparnell5853 Its very easy to follow, the key is literally in the first part of the first episode. It practically summarized the entire season. The ending was thrown in your face so its hard to be confused, but I personally didn't like how they did that.
Binge watched.Absolutely loved🖤
Bael is a very ancient and powerful African spirit discovered and captured at the beginning of the transatlantic slave trade, 500 years ago. Dutch/Western wealth and power started with slavery, its original sin. Slavery must be here understood as spiritual warfare. Capturing African bodies was essentially about capturing African spiritual life force. Bael represents the ancestral African spiritual force and old lady, the force of the West. What is revealed is that the western oligarchy needs Africans in position of physical and spiritual servitude like the nuclear bomb needs uranium to function. I.E the western capitalist project was and is powered by the spiritual life force of the African diaspora kept in bondage across the world through evil and sinister means.
Both Bael and the old white can be seen as egregores (spirit forces). A much lower spiritual entity, the old lady feeds off Bael and uses its life force to power the Dutch/Western paradigm, on a spiritual level. All its members are the rulers of the system.
Bael is kept against its will. A secret society was established to control it. They feed it with dark energy matter created from blood sacrifices. You understand that there are level to the cult and not all is revealed, even to the members. Only the presidents know the true meaning of the secrets hidden within the cult. When Bael sees the girl it recognises her because of her African bloodline. It initially tries to speak to her but she is afraid and can not understand.
The suicide by guilt is a symbol of the veil of illusion falling off. The members can now see their crime for what it was. Overwhelmed by the challenge of their own consciousness, they offer themselves as sacrifice. In many ways, one can argue that they were all manipulated by the entity of the Old white lady.
At the end, the imbalance is repaired and evil exposed.
It was interesting. But don"t forget, slavery is not a specifical thing of Africans and Europeans, and their spirits. Slavery is a very ancient thing...it was a part of life of humankind nearly in every age. Nowadays too. Enslavement of African people by Europeans is just a good choice of explanation the eternal sin of opression and cruelty, wich are sins of mankind general. Because the serie is European, they choose this example. But this is not about simple African slavery. This is more about, how leaders can lost their humanity, start make cruel decisions to maintain power. Forefathers of Ares-members made a choice to enslavement innocent people from Africa in order to being wealthy. Their offspring were innocent in this crime, but the fathers doctrinated them being unethical, and forced them make their own bad choices and commit their own crimes in order to become a member of elites. For example, commiting a murder. Carmen didn"t murder a baby, she keeped her purity. Rosa too, because she killed her friend because he requested it, and not with bad intention. The story's moral teaching is not specifically about African slavery and so-called "white guilt" but about sin of opression, sacrificing others and your own soul, ethical values on altar of power and wealth. This is why these people committed suicides, when their guilt returned to them. They intentionally removed their ability to feel guilt via horrible crimes in order to become enough unethical to access power, and they become too horrified, when their guilt restored, and they faced their crimes and shames.
It's reminded me that in the past, Netherlands were occupying my country and made my people work unpaid against their will for hundreds of years. It's a past but I don't know, I just feel so bad to the people that have to went through it, to be honest it's quite a blessing that I was born in the age where war and slavery was something in the past.
It will be better if you think for a while. You don't think there are Secret Society's like this today?
I was looking for an explanation on the trailer because the trailer didn’t explain what it was about. But this is way better than the trailer
Please do THE OUTSIDER episode breakdown!!!! 😭
Has anyone even realised that Ares is the Greek good of war? Also that Bale is one of the seven Princes of hell in Christian demonology.
Now add that to the story line and what do you get?
Masters/lords of War.
The war is on their guilt and the become the Lords or masters of their own guilt
Bael - face your demons!
Head guy - fuck that, I have scissors!
I loved it. Need more story development.
The old woman in chains is represented as Old Netherlands(as she speaks Old Dutch) and if you turn the Ares logo upside down it’s the VOC which is the Dutch East India Company, which was founded in early 17th century and specialized in spice trading among other things if I remembered correctly
My fiance and I just watched the last two episodes last night. He was kind of like, what is going on, and I was like...they are emptying their sin and shame or maybe they are dumping their conscience in there...so they can do all the evil things they feel they need to do for power and control with out having to feel any regret or shame......I am eager to see if there is a second season. I feel like as she sat down in the President's chair, it was JUST starting to really get intriguing. I want to see the fallout from this event unfold.
Loved this show. I think it was inspired by Star Trek TNG.. the episode called Skin of Evil. Armus.. an entity formed from the released and discarded negative emotions from a race a beings. It formed into a black liquid.
This series was very interesting and thought provoking. I sincerely hope they continue the series. From the look of some of the comments it’s clear that people are opinionated about racism. It’s interesting to me that people cringe at placed or perceived guilt of how they may have benefited from power or privilege (which. Ones in many forms), but can devote that much emotion or energy into empathy for those who have suffered the wrath’s of tyranny and the legacy which resulted in that tyranny. I can only say, that until we as a people accept the past, learn from it, and embrace the fact that both sides need to heal from their respective legacies...we in the whole world...not just your corner of it, will be the worse for it. All sides can acknowledge the effects that history holds on us as a collective and individually. It is then and only then that we can begin to tear down our walls, shed our fears, and be free to live amongst, help, and enjoy each other. Together we human beings are stronger than we are alone. Forget labels like left, right, woke, tone deaf, etc. if we stick to truths peppered in sensitivity for everyone...we can get to a better place. The series put the topic out there. We can chose positive discourse, because the alternative only promotes chaos, and who does that benefit?
I highly appreciate your thoughtful and timely insight. You are right on the mark with your comments, I hope people will heed them.
I think people are laying into the slavery waaaaay to heavily in this show. Its used as an example of the idea Ares facilitates but it isnt a message of slavery bad white people bad
Just finished the show. I understood the ending so well. SO WELL !!!!!!!
When her African father embraced her...
the Empress So many possibilities of interpretation this moment isn’t it ?
So tell me? No, it is not Slavery of 1800. Because Slavery was a tole to conquer land and bring there religion. To also have many secret temples around the world. To bring Black people to Religion or to a Secret Society or both.
Beal/Baal is killing your first born child. Where is the connection with Sugar slavery? Did Black African people kill tgere first born child or did they kill every White first born child? Because that didn't happened only in the Secret Society.
Actually, the physical form we first see of Beal could be similar to how a golem is made.
Gonna check this out
I haven't watched the show, but if that goo makes up feel so guilty that you off yourself, what happens to people who feel no guilt. I don't mean like her father but true psychopaths. They probably cover it in the show, but now I'm just curious about them.
In the end, I realize that it was a metaphor to something relationed a slavery seeing that the main character was Black, and the frame on the sheep
You didn’t meant in the pulsating thing that was behind the wall that Jacob destroyed.
I feel like this movie is like a prequel of what's about to really happen in the world
Yes you know what's gonna happen to the world when you didn't even know this wasn't a movie, but a seiries.
Are we gonna ignore season one episode 1 when that first girl killed herself
Illuminati confirmed!! 😳
Waifu DomoTron the weird thing is i never expected the Dutch of it.
I agree 💯
been confirmed. Since 1776 in usa
@@LocovsworldNL why not?
I liked this show. I hope to see more.
very helpful
I believe the most important painting in the film is Rembrandt’s The Night Watch for two reasons. The whole series is shot like a Rembrandt painting and Rembrandt sacrificed his career and status because The Nightwatch symbolically portrayed a group similar to Ares as evil. The Nightwatch accused the Amsterdam high society of conspiracy, murder and sex slavery. Peter Greenaway’s film J’Accuse will explain all of that for you. Ares is a fantastic series. Loved the nods to Argento’s and Guadagnino’s Suspiria, Gaira’s Guts of a Virgin and Tsukamoto’s Nightmare Detective 2’s closing shot which is perhaps the greatest anti-horror horror film. So glad Ares copies it!!!
Ok! After watching this I was able to put 2 and 2 together. I like how the show leaves things to the imagination because it definitely puts emphasis on the things that some people don’t want to talk about...SLAVERY, spirituality, the past, & Bloodlines... mostly SLAVERY. A lot of emphasis on the water and if you refer to the end there were pictures on the wall that seem to signify the Atlantic slave trade in the 1600s. During this time, boats and cargos were set on fire as a sport to intentionally kill slaves. Then you had some that were in battle with rivals and this resulted to a lot of slave ship wreckages, hence the pictures on the wall that tell that story. A lot of slaves either jumped off the ships or died at sea and this could where the BLACK water comes in at. The black water refers the power of African American ancestors as they could never be killed and are still leading and guiding what we know to be the AFRICAN AMERICAN RACE. “Ares” continued to utilize the black water to remain in power. They used the blacks as slaves physically and spiritually as slaves because they envied their power. TODAY AND IN HISTORY!
Do your research on theSlave trade. Africans were known as being very royal and living luxury lives. They knew how to grow crops, they were self sufficient, had diamonds, gold, and were great teachers. During the Slave Trade there was suppose to be an equal agreement between whites and blacks, but just like we heard in the series, the whites told the Africans what they wanted to hear to get what they wanted and to remain in power and AFRICANS were mistreated for being DIFFERENT in the US. Africans were going to America to help teach white people and work with them. This is the same thing that happened during Thanksgiving with the Indigenous Indian people, they were SLAUGHTERED by the whites.
This resulted to Africans being slaves in America and learning how to adapt, which is where the Western European term African AMERICAN came about. Now mind you, some Africans now known as AFRICAN AMERICANS were also spiritual beings when they were in their ORIGINAL home before getting on that slave ship. not ALL AFRICAN AMERICANS originated in Africa, some were already here.
Getting back to the series, to me this shows how some people have thrived and envy the black culture, but yet tries to destroy it. When Rosa went into the black water it was like she immersed in it and connected with her ancestors who gave her power to stand up to the people that tried to build their business off the ancestors backs and tried to break them down. This series also talks about BLOODLINES, which is why I am referring to Ancestors. The only thing that the ancestors did for the people that had long bloodlines in Ares was put them in a position of power. Rosa’s ancestors gave her internal and external power to shut down any and all evil.
Moral of the story BLACK PEOPLE POWERFUL and their power comes from their ancestors. No matter how many black people they try to kill, its like the bloodline of Black people is so powerful that when one gets innocently killed their ancestors make them more powerful internally and external. I’m Caucasian and my biggest fear is blacks coming together for revenge against the whites. The elites in modern society are also killing black royal such as Whitney, Nipsey, and Prince. They doing what’s needed to remain in power. However, there will soon be a rise with the African American community for the better and I hope I am here to see it. I also agree with the guilt themes.
High Priestess bro thank you for this.
You're Caucasian?
Favorite show
Questions:
1- who was the girl from the first part of the first episode?
I’ll edit more in through my late night thinking.
Lols4you! What girl?
@@xsabirx The one you see getting inducted into Ares during the first 3 minutes of the 1st episode, she committed suicide by stabbing herself in the eyes and slitting her throat.
I think she is just an example
WHERE ARE THE VIDEOS FOR “The Outsider”?!!!!
5:10 not all alumni, only the circle, the previous presidents. I'm Dutch, watched the whole thing in one sitting
Ronald-Marcel v.d.Hoek zelfde hier
I think the old lady is actually baal and they hold the demon captive and exploit some of its power, which is the black stuff. There has to be some correlation between the chain around the old woman and the one we see the black entity using. Like some sort of connection between Rosa and the old woman (baal) that the demon sees as an opportunity to be released.
Maybe she's Rosa's relative as there is probably more to Rosa's mom being in the society
I don't like how when the old lady was talking for the last time all the Dutch subtitles said was "onverstaanbaar"
What you didn’t explain was the death of the flowers.... the old lady seems to require some sort of sacrifice to talk with that old lady.
Yea,she was behind that glass which protected the man but not the flowers!?
I liked the series very much. The only thing that I don't understand is the beginning. That girl killed herself but she didn't have any guilt right?
If you want to really understand what is all about, please start to search about “Johan de Witt” or “The Threatened Swan” in google.. just as when they try to explain to Rosa...
Is really important to also google about: VOC.
I think beal is a spell or curse from slavers
feng tianshi yes this is what I thought !!! It was voodoo