ravinarchive Why is the African Queen from the African Nation of Ancient Egypt Caucasian? There is several complaints about fictional characters who were traditionally casted as White males being played by "potentially" played by Black actors so why are you casting White Women in the role of historically black figures? Netflix is supposedly on the empowerment of Black film train but when it comes to showing their true historical factual selves they are being white-washed out? America needs to see the truth depicted in a series like this otherwise when are you going to show the Caesar portrayed by a actor of African decent? I guarantee that there would be a tremendous outcry had the majority of the cast been opposite of the race that these characters were historically. It's almost as it has been a coordinated effort to disguise and misrepresent the factual identities of historical figures of African decent.

naruto_gz 20 minutes into the second season and pretty much everything is wrong. That's really the only thing to say about this show. I'm not going to waste time listing it but it isn't just small inaccuracies in how the culture and world are portrayed. They literally got everything about their main character wrong, just rewrote his entire early life. The dramatized parts aren't particularly good either, imagine a very very low budget straight to video movie and you've got an idea of this shows quality. Have to wonder about the people they interview for this show, I'm guessing they're the lowest of the low in their field.

foster_fl History records Caeser's assassination on March 15th, 44 B.C. and the show begins with the title page March 15th before leading to his murder. Once the deed is done the narrator proclaims that on the 14th of March, 44 B.C., Julius Caeser is stabbed 23 times. Huh? Did I hear that correctly?

trap-50581 At first I thought this gives game of thrones a run for its money and I wondered why people gave it bad reviews. It seemed normal people give it 1 for not being more exciting while history buffs give it 1 for not being historically accurate. I don't care if they added in a vase, good looking women, or a mountain since going into this show you need to understand its going to take some liberties. If you think it's boring than I doubt there is any version of this that could make you happy. What made me not like it as much is after watching the first episode where they had history experts on and built up this whole thing complaining about commodus being a untrained loser is the fact that he was only 13 years old at the time! The part is being played by a 28 year old man! It's much harder to blame a 13 year old not being ready to be the king of Rome than it is a 28y/o man. Also Commodus's mother either got some sickness and died or committed suicide. The show makes it look like the king killed her with wine. Historically there doesn't seem to be anything to back that up and some people disagree that she even had anything to do with the uprising. After not even hearing the alternate views of these events where Netflix seemed to choose the most extreme version for extra hype this really is making me skeptical about the rest of this show.