Audiences shred Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra on Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB
Luke Gentile
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Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra was shredded by audience reviews following its May 10 release, with many comparing its calamitous release to the real-life Cleopatra’s own suicide.
The docuseries, produced by Jada Pinkett Smith, fueled outrage following its announcement due to its portrayal of the racially ambiguous queen as black.
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Cleopatra’s race and ethnicity have been argued through the years by historians, with many coming to the conclusion that she was primarily of Macedonian Greek descent.
It is not clear whether or not the widespread disapproval of the ancient queen’s portrayal was the impetus for the docuseries bombing, but bomb it did.
Queen Cleopatra received an abysmal 2% audience score and 11% critical score on Rotten Tomatoes.
On IMDb it was given a 1.1/10 rating.
The “show has done something I didn’t think was even possible,” a commentary review from Forbes read. “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].”
Along with the critics, social media users panned the docuseries.
“The Netflix documentary, #QueenCleopatra, is a deeply racist work of fiction. Cleopatra was of Greek descent. Academics settled this debate in the early 2000s,” one Twitter user commented.
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“Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Has The Worst Audience Score In TV History Imagine a documentary series about Martin Luther King, where Tom Hanks plays MLK,” another user Tweeted,” “That’s what Cleopatra is.”