Netflix Cleopatra WORST Audience Score in History! Woke Shows TRASHED on Rotten Tomatoes

Netflix’s ‘Queen Cleopatra’ Appears To Have The Worst Audience Score In TV History

While I had heard about the controversy surrounding Netflix’s “docudrama” Queen Cleopatra, I hadn’t been tracking it much since it was actually released a few days ago. It’s #6 in Netflix’s Top 10 list, and I don’t think I’ve seen it go all that much higher than that.

However, the show has done something I didn’t think was even possible. 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).

I’ve previously written about series with low Netflix review scores. The last time I broached this topic was when Netflix’s now-cancelled Resident Evil adaptation scored a 22% with fans, one of the lowest I’d ever seen on the service. That was low compared to other high profile Netflix misses, Jupiter’s Legacy with 73%, Space Force with 77%, Haters Back Off with 76%, Resident Evil: Infinite Darkness with 39%. Fans usually rate things higher than critics, even bad shows, and the point being, a 1% audience score seems borderline mathematically impossible, even with the controversy the film has attracted.

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.

[Michael_Bancroft]

If think the turn against woke 'entertainment' couldn't have come fast enough, smash that subscribe button.

[TopAnime-knxr]

Saying Cleopatra is black is like calling Jada Pinkett Smith a loving wife.

[Salemchevy]

This is why YouTube needs to let the dislike button come back. It saved the sonic movie and could have saved these stupid studios some time and money

[shawn]

The Egyptian's should make a documentary about the USA civil rights movement and cast a fair skinned Egyptian as Dr. Martin Luther King 😂🤣

[bcyc]

I love how Hollywood is taking blackface to a whole new level!

[GK-lfmn]

They also tend to make their protagonists into villains, like Peter Pan...

[masamune]

Such a shame to see this show sitting at 2%…


…when before it was sitting at 1%.

[nanausbshz]

I mean what did they expect. Changing history to validate themeselves in the expense of others.

[putrandomnamehere]

Cant wait for Chris Pratt to play rosa parks

[silverblade]

Netflix be like, "98% of the world is racist!"

[sakaguchiseiichi]

Takes me back to when I visited my grandma and grandpa in japan and they told me " No matter what they teach you in school Nelson Mandela was Asian and he grew up down the street".

[SRunni_]

I'm black and I've had enough of this BS!

[dman]

Thank god. Im so sick of this shit being pushed on us. My partner and I have had to resort to watching 80's movies again because we were sick of all the woke shit in movies nowadays

[voulafisentzidis]

At last - viewers are rebelling. Let's hope this results in discernment which gains us some quality programming.

[trajan]

Time for us all to ignore this woke garbage and stop giving money to people who hate us.

[mvitor]

I belive the old studios like Disney and WB are marching for a slow death, they're gradually loosing the audience that gave them their power. This will allow new studios that understand what the audience wants to flourish.
I guess everything ends eventually, nothing is eternal.

[AlexNur]

There's a difference between woke & rewriting history.

[thatguyoverthere]

Now with the writers strike it's time to have it home. We do not support them, or their out of touch stories

[JS-tevj]

Wait, they're claiming Anne Bolyne was black⁉︎

[elethio]

"almost everyone hates this stuff too".
Yes most reasonable people can see that gaslighting, tired tropes, and bad writing, are utterly ruining what should be our best current entertainment.

We can see that but, Gaslighting, Tired Tropes, and Bad Writing ARE NOT the definition of 'woke'.

The term "Woke" has been muddied so much it's clearly lost its usefulness, so I'll use the term 'social justice'.
Social Justice has always been (since the bible or before) an amazing tool that elevates good stories into great ones.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds; In the tradition of classic Trek fulfills this definition seamlessly.

Season 2 ep2 (just watched it today) is excellent (as are all it's episodes), it asks hard thought provoking question about thre roles of prejudice, justice, compassion, and the law. But it does this seamlessly within the context of the 'world' of Star Trek. It respects the material, the lore, and the audience.

But what it doesn't do is, gaslight, use tired tropes, nor does it fall into lazy writing or lazy dialogue.

So, films/media can be 'woke' (have a theme of socials justice) and still be fkng good. Because themes of 'Social Justice', of themselves aren't the problem.

Writers and directors who use 'woke' as an excuse to not respect the material or the audience; They are the problem.