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Once the series launched, the response only worsened. Viewers and critics alike labeled Queen Cleopatra a joke—a shameless attempt to rewrite history under the guise of diversity and representation. The series' reception on review aggregator sites was brutal: it garnered a mere 3% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, marking it as one of the worst-scoring shows in Netflix history.
Not only fans but also mainstream critics brutally roasted the series, citing poor production quality, inaccuracies, and an overall dismissiveness of the historical record. The criticism was so intense that the critics’ score was only marginally better at 15%—another sign that even professional reviewers found little merit in the series.