Alexander: The Making of a God

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 was excited to watch this and learn more about Alexander. I'm fascinated by that time frame but it's just episode after episode of boring battle scenes with no real story line. It's all over the place. Huge let down. Another Netflix bomb, I should have known since Netflix doesn't seem interested in producing quality anymore. I'm not sure why they keep putting projects like this out? It's not enjoyable to watch and they also don't seem to respect the truth in their story lines. Another Netflix complete disappointment. It could have been good but it absolutely and completely missed the mark!!!

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.

Maybe the creators didn't want to remake the Farrell Alexander. Or maybe there wasn't enough info that would be palatable to the Netflix audience that gets bored in the age of TikTok. Nita particularly good look at Alexander's life. The series starts with Al in exile at age 20. It leaves out his education with Aristotle and the taming of his famous horse. These two stories are part of the legend. Why they were left out is beyond me. Another reviewer noted the flaws in the armor worn by the troops. I can't speak to that but the horses were too large and the tack was off. I get really annoyed by that detail. Narrators pop in and out to provide sciencey exposition that stops the motion of the story. I'd suggest reading The Persian Boy instead of watching this series. And let's quit making the Persians the Evil Empire. It was a long lived and culturally diverse area that existed as part of the Silk Road. A series on Persia would be fascinating.

Not a spoiler, highly inaccurate series. I agree with anither review saying that the 300 movie was more accurate than this 😂. So many missed moments, missed battles, inaccurate events oh so many. It felt like watching something like "ancient aliens", like this is a hypothesis of a couple of PhDs. The disappointing part also is that one of the historians is from St Andrews University. It had such high standards.. Clearly not anymore. Although, that historian was the most serious and studious than the rest of them! One is in love with Alexander and is telling a story that he has in his mind and the other is almost like making fun of him. What an odd series. Only reason I put 4 stars, is for the drama series, not the historians nor the highly inaccurate story.