Netflix’s Queen Cleopatra Is A DISASTER

Amala Ekpunobi

Education

4.2 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

The new Netflix documentary Queen Cleopatra has been one of the greatest flops in history. Executive producer Jada Pinkett-Smith is blaming white supremacy for its record-low 1% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, but could it also be that attempting to race swap and rewrite history was just a horrible idea? Let’s get into it.

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0:00.0	Don't care what they tell you in school.
0:01.4	Cleopatra was bland.
0:02.8	Are you sure about that?
0:03.6	She is the undisputed Queen of Egypt.
0:05.6	We'll be doing this differently from Alan.
0:06.8	What?
0:07.6	He's over.
0:08.8	He's over.
0:09.3	Netflix decided to racewap Queen Cleopatra,
0:11.8	and now they have a 2% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
0:14.6	Go, Oak, Go Broke.
0:15.7	Let's get into it.
0:16.4	Young Apollo with the-
0:17.4	Let's go!
0:18.4	Let's go!
0:18.8	Let's go!
0:19.8	Let's go!
0:21.8	So Netflix just recently put out its Queen Cleopatra series,
0:25.7	which it deems to be a historical documentary
0:28.6	slash docuseries, and they decided to depict Queen Cleopatra
0:32.5	as a black woman.
0:34.2	Wow.
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