Alexander: The Making of a God

Historical parody in documentary format. Actually, I give 6 points to content that I finish without being bored in the least, but this work misleads people historically. What the historians in this series do is not in line with the ethics of their profession. A historian and archaeologist has an obligation to try presenting history in its most accurate form. As a branch of science, of course, within the most current findings. Professional ethics requires this. I am in a country where we live to see how serious the consequences of distortion of historical facts can be. You may say that it is obvious that the things shown here are not very accurate historically, then what is the point of making a documentary. Also there will always be an audience that will believe and accept what they see.

Yet again, Netflix makes the same mistakes, making everything feel like a joke.

This feels like a cheap soap opera instead of a documentary. The inaccuracy of the historical events are insane, the acting is very sad and forced. Nothing is explained about Alexander's life, they only induced fake drama which makes no sense at all.

This is a shame, Alexander has always been one of my favourite rulers from the past and I was hoping for some new information or at least a good interpretation of the ones all of us know.

This is another Netflix fail, do not waste your time if you are a history nerd, all you will end up on with is being sad and frustrated.

I'm impressed at least by the fact that Netflix is paying more attention to audiences who are interested in history.

Having said that, I think the hardcore history audience will also demand a lot from the Netflix series.

They're such nerds that they've read everything and expect Netflix to present it to the public just like the books.

It's a docudrama with very strong drama, but it could be worse.

There are a lot of inaccuracies it is true. But giving this documentary 1/10 because you think "Alexander was Greek not Macedonian" reveals how stupid you are despite knowing more about Alexander than the producers.

I'll keep this short. Hollywood still can't make anything remotely accurate about Alexander the Great. It makes me sick. When I was a kid we had that Oliver Stone mess with Colin Farrell and honestly I didn't think it could get worse. I was wrong.

This Netflix garbage is intentionally inaccurate. I don't understand it. I've studied Alexander and ancient Macedon for years and when I tell you they are intentionally changing or misleading very well known historical details, please know I'm not kidding. All for entertainment purposes I guess but here's the problem - the truth is so much more interesting!

Just skip it. There are YouTube documentaries that are far far far better than whatever this garbage is.

I suppose it's better than that Jada Pinkett Smith "Cleopatra was Black" nonsense.

I am starting to notice a pattern.

You watch a Netflix series about some true historical figures, and you are shown some admirable things about them. The aesthetics are beautiful. You finish watching it, and you feel satisfied, and are glad to have been told an interesting chapter of history that you now feel you "know from beginning to end".

Then you later find out, through reading either the primary sources (or reading other people's reviews, as in the case of this series) that the series was actually wildly inaccurate, and in a suspicious way. A ton of really epic stuff was just LEFT OUT. They also added a lot of inaccurate stuff that makes the characters look bad.

The end result is that the story, and the characters portrayed, were watered down and made mediocre in the series, contrasted to the actual real story.

I've seen this with the abominable series "The Last Czars", and now also with this Alexander series. I also Notice that there is some overlap between these 2 series, regarding the writers behind them!

I can't help but wonder if this is done intentionally, to wipe away our history? As an analogy, it's like people going to see a huge epic temple that they've heard about, but someone has set up a cheap mediocre replica on the way, so that the people will stop there instead, and not see the real one.