Netflix’s Black Cleopatra Show Is an Unprecedented Failure – Low Scores Break Records on Top Review Site

The new Netflix documentary series “Queen Cleopatra” has produced the lowest audience score in Netflix history.

The current Rotten Tomatoes ratings are 11 percent from critics with one out of nine positive reviews and a 2 percent audience score with 0.7 out of a 5 star average rating.

“The show has done something I didn’t think was even possible. It has not just the lowest audience score in Netflix history, it has essentially the lowest audience score possible on Rotten Tomatoes, a 1%. Not a 10%, a 1%. (Update: It just ticked up to 2%. Still an unprecedented low),” Forbes contributor Paul Tassi reported Monday.

The article goes on to describe some of the worst-rated shows that Netflix has produced, including former Netflix show “Resident Evil.”

Tassi’s conclusion is, “I’ve never seen anything like this. Not with bad shows. Not with politically controversial shows prone to review bombing. Never this bad, not in Netflix history. Honesty, I think not even in TV history, at least with this many reviews in.”

An article from the Daily Mail compiles a few of the reviews relating to the show and sums up the reviews as follows: “Now critics have widely panned the series, with one deeming it  ‘a misfire’ while another said they couldn’t ‘contain their laughter’ during ‘serious scenes.'”

Aside from the poor reviews concerning content and acting, the show has come under scrutiny for what a