Empire Games

Go to any library to realize how insultingly false episode 3 really is. The producers conveniently claim that they offer the most recent information about ancient Egypt, but that still doesn't justify the falsehoods about Ramses II and the reasons for the fall of the Golden Age of Egypt. The set design and costumes are comedic. If you want comedy, this is the place.

Cyrus the great, Darius I, Xerses not even discussed. Well Darius III and Xerses were mentioned in passing. But the Persian empire was otherwise ignored completely. I'm speechless...

I just watched the Aztecs episode as I am 1/2 Zapotec. The narrator was horrible. He murdered the names and words of so many things. Clearly he did not do his homework. Just sad.

The series seems inspired by the worst written and produced historical tripe churned out of the early 2000's History Channel. Nothing new or particularly well done.

At this point, it goes without mentioning how this series has failed to be historically accurate. Of the first season, I only managed to watch the first 20 minutes of the sixth episode, and that was really all it took for me to hate this series. I can recall three issues I have with this specific episode. 1. The whole "spectacle" of sacrifice was absolutely sensationalized and completely contradicted everything the historians were revealing. 2. The narrator mispronounced/hispanicized every Nahuatl word that came up in his script, which is really more revealing of the script writer's lack of knowledge on how the Mesoamerican tongue was spoken, or they just failed to communicate with the narrator. 3. A clip of an Incan Sapa Inka on a litter was shown when the power of Aztec emperors was being discussed. I'm 100% positive there are many more errors that I'm missing in this review about this episode. If anyone is looking to be even minimally educated about the empire being reported on, I highly recommend for you to stay away from this monstrosity of a documentary.