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.
Some of my fondest mammaries- er I mean memories.
The fact of Jada Pinkett Smith being one of the producers was another negative for some viewers.
She and husband Will Smith have their own baggage.
Well ain’t that a slap in the face!..................
I don’t know that there even is a “target audience”. Not to many black Americans are going to tune in for any kind of history docudrama, I think, no matter how pandering it is.
The problem is, they only made her black.
They neglected to make “her” transgender.
That would have fixed it right up.
I want Tom Hanks to play Malcom X.
Why not force white actors to preform in black face?
Now that's a good one right there.
“Netflix Series Which Incorrectly Featured Cleopatra as Black Woman Gets Worst Audience Score in TV History”
So what? THEY DON’T CARE. Non one reads the NYT, the Washington Post. No one watches CNBC, MSNBC, etc. Even if Netflix loses millions of $/yr. It doesn’t matter to them, what matters to the owners is they play a part in spreading propaganda and lies to benefit the cause. To get credit for being on the “right side”. To be invited to the best parties and get good articles written about them.
A perfect example of how so very alluring short women can be.
Absolutely!
Jason Staham gets my vote.
Interesting factoid about Shaka Zulu: He admired Julius Caeser and reorganized his nation to emulate Roman Army.
I still say Genghis Kahn looked exactly like John Wayne. Prove me wrong.
Corporations must be led by hard headed fools not to understand wokeness is killing them.
Good. I’m fed up with this black woke crap.
Why can’t she be a black woman? Half of the British royals in Bridgerton are black.
He’s a bad Mutha... SHUT YOUR Mouth!
I think the confusion today is that people see individuals like Kamala Harris, who has a light brown skin tone, and immediately jump to the conclusion that she is black.
The same for Mediterranean peoples - we forget they have an olive cast to their skin tone, and some people immediately jump the the same conclusion - they are black.
When it reality, neither Harris nor Cleopatra are black. Nor Hamilton. Nor Queen Charlotte (who has a TV show).
I agree, I really liked her too. I thought that series was great!
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