It may be time for Netflix to admit some (most) of this stuff isn’t working.
According to a report from Forbes, the Netflix docudrama Queen Cleopatra currently has the worst tv audience ratings in Rotten Tomatoes history: 1%.
From Forbes:
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 in, but those are low as well, with the show sitting at a 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 this bad, not in Netflix history. Honesty, I think not even in TV history, at least with this many reviews in (over a thousand).
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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 not 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.
More over at Forbes:
Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Appears To Have The Worst Audience Score In TV History https://t.co/A6JL6zGn7b
— Forbes Games (@ForbesGames) May 14, 2023
