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Matho The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

bethkatediver I am actually a relative of Dr Howard Carter as he is my great, great, great uncle. I loved this show and really enjoyed the added excitement of the affair.A lot of critics say that the affair is annoying and did not happen but really know one knows if it did or did not happen so disregard this as a critic of the show. Also, the fact that the sand or stone is not the right colour is just silly as this would have been extremely hard to replicate and is such as minor detail.Overall, the show was amazing and captivating to the audience. It really showed the hardships Carter went through and why it was such an brilliant find.

Historian-3 Why do film makers always feel the need to re-write history as they wish it to have been. rather than leaving it as it was? This series is replete with historical inaccuracies, geographic inaccuracies, and all manner of other errors. Absolute rubbish. Even the very simplest of historical facts, such as Carter's first opening of and entry into the tomb, are completely erroneous. The impression I have is of writers, directors, and producers who assume or hope that most viewers are too stupid to know the difference ... a total disregard for their audience.

phd_travel Despite the inaccuracies, this miniseries is still watchable fascinating and well made. The story of the greatest discovery is so good that it makes up for the faults. The discovery itself is quite thrilling and one can really feel the joy. One of the best points is the detail shown. There are lots of details about the financial, political difficulties regarding the dig. It does give some historical context to the time of the discovery. The question over what Egypt gets to keep and what the discoverer gets as a reward is interesting. It's not right that foreigners take away the historical treasures of any country yet the discoverer needs some compensation for their expenses.Dealing with the faults: It wasn't filmed in Egypt and the sand and valley are darker and don't look like Egypt. It would have been tough to film in Egypt with all the instability since 2011 anyway. The romances with a Met Museum woman and Lady Evelyn Herbert are a little distracting but I guess if they didn't blow these up it would have been kind of like a documentary. There are some bad American accents of a few characters. Also Max Irons is too young looking at the time of the discovery - bit like Jonathan Rhys Meyers in the Tudors. But so what - he is watchable and actually is quite good here if you ignore the age thing - I can't think of another young actor who could have done a better job. A little more of the factual elements of the curse could have been shown besides Lord Carnarvon's death. Some strange things did happen. Better than showing the romances.If you enjoyed this - highly recommend a 1980 TV movie "The Curse of King Tut's Tomb", an excellent and exciting movie about the discovery and the curse. Forget about the more recent one with Casper Van Dien.Quite a pleasure to watch despite it's faults.

robandlinzi very poor in retrospect to the truth, for starters where is the Nile river in the shots, it was not that far away, Sam neill is a great actor and i find it hard to understand why he took this role as it's very week and untrue to the great lord carnarvon the 5th earl,lady evelyn carnarvon would have only been around the age of 21 and not the age depicted in the show, and lady evelyn never had an affair with carter, the rolls Royce was never there and was not the car that lord carnarvon had use of at that time, i find the show a complete embarrassment of the true story and for Itv to have play it on TV is a shame, i love ITV but this is a new low and i have canceled my recordings on sky. i shall not be watching it any longer, very disappointed in the series,roby