After a 160-minute marathon of consuming Queen Cleopatra on Netflix, I slouch on the couch, pondering if all the buzz was worth it.
Just a month ago, the trailer for this docudrama miniseries ignited YouTube. The producers, including Jada Pinkett, made a peculiar choice to re-imagine Cleopatra by making her skin colour dark – or as the internet likes to call it, they “blackwashed” Cleopatra.
