Mussolini: Son of the Century

Let the facts be the facts, and that is why I am honest in admitting that I tried to start watching this series and fall asleep each time after some 10 minutes of watching. I made like 5 attempts, and each time I fell asleep,

As someone with a keen interest in everything about the Second World War (WW2) - I maintain an IMDb list in which I describe and rate over 250 of the best movies and series about WW2 - I was actually looking forward to watching this series. It is not often that you get the ability to get to see a high budget series made on such an important person from the WW2. And it is even more rare to see content in which Mussolini is featured in such detail. It therefore had a lot of things going for it.

But immediately from the start of episode one, it was a huge disappointment. And how much I tried to like it, the way in which it is produced is just so dull and uninteresting! Why on earth could SKY ever greenlight this?! Instead of making a series that is made a good viewing experience for the majority of the audience, it seems to be more some kind of artistic attempt to make some cult-like series destined for winning prizes. Well, in my opinion, it failed in all ways possible! And unfortunately, the format stays the same in all episodes. Dullness after dullness...

Instead of a series that could have reached the top-10 of streaming / veiwing charts for quite a number of weeks, I think it will only gather a very limited interest. And it is such a wasted opportunity! Just look at ather WW2 series that are still being watched many years after its initial release, a series on Mussolini could also have achieved that! But for this, SKY only would have needed to select a director that is able to make a normal series! Instead SKY chose to go with this artistic and experimental format that is unwatchable from the first second. Listening to an audiobook is a lot more appealing than this series.

Concluding, I score this series 3.7/10, resulting in an IMDb rating of only 4 stars. And I personally think that is even generous. Why on earth could people within SKY allow this trainwreck ever to happen?! In my opinion, SKY should really look into sacking several people that were involved in this project. Because in todays age of cutthroat competition on getting an audience, this is just about the worst it can get.