Posted on 05/17/2023 9:02:39 AM PDT by Red Badger
Netflix Series Which Incorrectly Featured Cleopatra as Black Woman Gets Worst Audience Score in TV History The Netflix series about Cleopatra, which changed the race of the title character from Greek/Macedonian to an African black woman, has suffered the worst audience score in TV history.
As The Daily Fetched reported last month, the government of Egypt has slammed Netflix for the portrayal, accusing them of falsely rating history for politics.
The secretary-general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziri, said the Netflix show wrongly Featuring Cleopatra was a black woman represents a “falsification of Egyptian history and a blatant historical fallacy.”
However, the ‘woke’ series creators have more to worry about since brutal reviews show audiences are not buying their ‘woke’ portrayals of Cleopatra.
The series now has the lowest audience score in TV history.
Forbes reports:
While I had heard about the controversy surrounding Netflix’s “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra, I hadn’t been tracking it much since it was actually released a few days ago. It’s #6 in Netflix’s Top 10 list, and I don’t think I’ve seen it go all that much higher than that.
However, the show has done something I didn’t think was even possible. It has not just the lowest audience score in Netflix history; it has essentially the lowest audience score possible on Rotten Tomatoes, a 1%. Not a 10%, a 1%. (Update: It just ticked up to 2%. Still an unprecedented low)
There aren’t many critic reviews, but those are low as well, with the show sitting at 13%. But those audience scores? I’ve never seen anything like this. Not with bad shows. Not with politically controversial shows prone to review bombing. Never been this bad, not in Netflix’s history. Honesty, I think not even in TV history, at least with this many reviews in (over a thousand)….
The issue is the conceptualization of what purports to be a historical documentary saying that Cleopatra was a black “African queen,” as this season was supposed to be the first in a series covering different queens from the continent. But there is no terribly credible evidence that Cleopatra was black, and instead, she was of Macedonian Greek descent. The country of Egypt, in particular, has taken offense to the show altering their history this dramatically and portraying it as something they believe is non-factual in a series that is meant to be a documentary.
The numbers say everything
The public is sick of Hollywood, and it’s becoming more obvious.
I suppose we’ll see a spinoff where the black Cleo marries the black “Hamilton” and they have a black lab they named Old Yeller.
User viewers on IMDB rate it 1.0/10.
It could have been worse. Netflix could have hired an Asian tranny to play Cleopatra.
I probably shouldn’t joke about this. Because that might actually be their next move.
Julius Caesar as a black man.
Alexander the Great as a Black man.
Genghis Khan as a black man.
Napoleon as a black man.
Marie Antoinette as a black woman.
Attila the Hun as a black man.
Queen Elizabeth I as a black woman.
Catherine the Great as a black woman.
Joan of Arc as a black woman.
Madame Curie as a black woman.
Clara Barton as a black woman.
Lucretia Borgia as a black woman.
We could do this all day............................
I want to see a remake of Shaka Zulu with a white guy playing him this time.
James West wasn’t black either.....or Ralph Cramden....or Nick Fury
LOLOLOL...ha, ha, ha!!
Give me the good old days...
How about Rosa Parks as a white woman.
That ought to get some attention.....................
Even the worst movies and shows get like an “11%” rating on RT, because people like one of the stars, or there is a “it’s so bad it’s good” element, etc. Nothing gets a 1%.
How long before these ratings get manipulated upward?
I always thought Bruce Willis would’ve made a great Shaft......imagine the whining and nashing of teeth that woulda caused.
You forgot Santa Claus!
I have always loved history. I never heard of a black Cleopatra till 1968 in the military while talking to my white crew chief when the subject of the movie Cleopatra came up.
He blurted that “She was black too!” I was stunned that a white guy would not know Cleopatra was Greek!
Egyptians are pissed!......................
I think the show even pissed off their target audience of black women, who were told their show is about black women in history, and were lazily given a pretend black woman instead.
But day wuz kangs
Cleopatra was descendent of Ptolemaios Soter, one of the generals of Alexander the Great. After the dead of Alexander, his empire was divided (violently) into his generals. Ptolemaios took over Egypt and adjacent countries.
His descendants were in habit of marrying within the family, and speaking Greek, not even learning the Egyptian language.
So Cleopatra was of pure Macedonian descent!
Present day analogy would be to make queen Victoria black/Hindu since she ruled African and Indian colonies.
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