Mankindfails

Those telling you this is ok are the ones crying all day about cultural appropriation. Bunch of hypocrites.

The series is empty and fake as much as the cult that made it.

It is an insult to Jane Austen, an insult to British culture, history and cinema.

Another example of ideological fanatics pretending to be artists while all they want is to push their propaganda via every medias they can get their hands on.

These guys would make soap that doesn't wash just to push their propaganda on the box.

Same thing here, this movie has no other purpose then to put diversity where it doesn't belong.

Life is too short to be subjected to such bad material.

Don't believe the low ratings and reviews. This movie touches subjects like colonialism, imperialism and Islam. So of course many people will rage about the movie not being in line with their views or beliefs on the subjects. It's not a movie for peoples that need a "safe space".

I don't have any biases on the subjects and to me it seemed pretty fair. The movie doesn't depict the British Empire as all evil or all good. It doesn't depict the Muslims as good or evil either. It doesn't show the indigenous people in a particular good or bad light either. So I'd say the movie didn't sink into modern politics which is always surprising and refreshing.

As for the movie in general. Actors are great, scenery is great, music is good enough, costumes look good at least for someone not knowing exactly what costumes of the times are supposed to look like.

As for historical accuracy. According to Wikipedia, there doesn't seem to be a lot to go about with this story. The place was quite isolated in a time when info didn't circulate very well. So in this condition making the movie forces the artists to make romanticized relationships, characters and dialogs.

My main complain about this movie would be about the fact the guy's reign lasted around 27 years and this movie is more about how it all began. I felt it would have made a great TV show or mini series. So it's a bit sad that it felt like watching the first episodes of an unfinished show.

Also they tried to be a bit pretentious about the main characters thoughts. Thoughts they probably had no way to know anything about. So I wouldn't have made the choice to go with made up thoughts no one can relate to or care about. Yet it did provide some context of the time period.

To sum it up. This movie is quite ok, pleasant to watch and certainly no where near as bad as people are saying in the reviews.

I get people have political views and biases. Yet a movie or a show isn't supposed to be a political pamphlet.

Not only this is a political pamphlets, it's pretty bad at it and it's about pretty bad political views and biases. To the point of promoting violent open borders activists. Violent activists that exist in real life by the way.

Not to mention promoting racism. Which has become normal since a few years.

Clearly Disney knows people buy Disney+ and won't leave it for a bad show so they don't try to make it any good.

This show says a lot about what the new content from Marvel will be from now. Which is very oriented political pamphlets and propaganda.

At least in the previous Marvel contents, the politics was more about American freedom.

Clearly this is a marking stone. There was the somehow good Marvel stuff before that, and the bad Marvel stuff since it became as bad as this show.