The original post: /r/television by /u/Davis_Crawfish on 2025-04-01 19:23:30.
I can’t watch Hercules no more because of how awful a human being Kevin Sorbo turned out to be.
That said, Hercules had much better VFX and grander and more epic story-lines but Lucy Lawless could act circles around Sorbo and I always felt Xena stories were more emotional and intimate. Because Xena started out as a baddie, there was more space to explore moral ambiguities.
Hercules was pretty generic in how it portrayed Good and Evil.