Netflix's controversial Queen Cleopatra documentary debuted to a 1% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
Queen Cleopatra
, I think it’s also worth pointing out that the series is currently the #6 Netflix TV show in the US today . I’ve explained in the past how that “Top 10” label is really kind of a misnomer, because it’s more a signal of recency as opposed to popularity. How else to explain why newly added shoot all the way to #1 on Netflix, or that one of the Top 10 shows on Netflix has just earned the lowest possible score you can get on Rotten Tomatoes ?prior to its release, that’s due to what critics have blasted as a kind of historical revisionism. The decision was made to cast Cleopatra in the series as black, a lack of definitive historical evidence notwithstanding.
As you can see from the Rotten Tomatoes scores above though, that explanation has produced a series that’s satisfied neither fans nor critics. A quick search on YouTube for “Queen Cleopatra,” meanwhile, brings up the series’ trailer at the very top, and it’s followed by one video after another castigating Netflix and the series, with titles like:
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