The Cleopatra Documentary is Worse Than You Think

The controversy over Netflix’s new four-part documentary Queen Cleopatra has been portrayed as a backlash to diversity in casting. “Diverse casting often attracts heated backlash online (like the ridiculous reaction to The Little Mermaid remake), but usually the controversy comes from reactionary spaces like ‘anti-woke’ YouTube,” wrote Dani Di Placido in Forbes, before noting that in this case, backlash had also come from the Egyptian government.