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Empire Games (2018)
Inaccurate and Sensationalist
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.