'The trailer is pure clickbait. The show itself is a much more complex piece of work.'
, was deliberately provocative. Promoting the show as executive produced by actress Jada Pinkett-Smith, it prominently featured historian Professor Shelley Haley declaring that: “Cleopatra was black.”Perhaps unsurprisingly, the trailer is pure clickbait. The show itself is a much more complex piece of work.. The first – and easiest – is by paying more attention to the dramatization of Cleopatra’s life and times than to the academic talking heads. The second is to do the opposite.
If you choose the former, you will find plenty of ammunition for criticism without even touching upon the decision to present Cleopatra, the royal family, and the wider Graeco-Egyptian population as black. Although no doubt this is where much supposedly critical analysis will both begin and end. While the scenery, sets, and costumes are sumptuous and evocative the script is terrible and the acting is unable to elevate it.Adele James does her best with Cleopatra, managing to convincingly portray her as both a naive 20-year-old and a world weary 40-year-old, all the while looking incredibly glamorous.
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