My $.02 is that it was a great idea and I enjoyed the series at the beginning until liberalism and PC crap swallowed up what was actually a great idea for a series. As usual PBS screwed up a good thing. On Monday when the liberal CA hippie pastor turned governor called a meeting and wanted to discuss how everyone was feeling, that was my exit. I could tolerate no more.
I agree. The producers obviously have never heard of L P Hartley's famous line, "the past is a foreign country: they do things differently there." Political correctness is Stalinism in drag: even history is not immune.
And BTW, I must disagree with the person up-thread who said that the Brits always do this sort of show better. If you want to laugh your head off for hours on end, try to get a tape of the BBC show "Surviving the Iron Age", which ran a couple of years ago.