This is truly awful, it is fictional melodrama rather than historical drama. Character development is on the level of caricature (boo the villains everyone). Acting is very average all of which makes it impossible to believe in, or sympathize with the characters. Having a few basic facts and writing a story around them, still born children and a broken leg, is not enough to justify a mini-series. It is hard to find any good points, fans of Ben Kingsley will be disappointed by his portrayal of a very one dimensional villain and the other actors cannot raise the story above the predictable. All in all this is a waste of air time, indeed it is six hours of your life that you will never get back.Give this one a miss.

The producers of this show must have gone through a lot of trouble to find the whitest actors of color on earth. Ancient Egyptians were either black or possibly middle-eastern, i.e much like today. Tutankhamun's death mask show distinct African facial features and all depictions show him and the people around as having brown skin. Since there is no shortage of talented black or middle-eastern actors this can only be described as good old fashioned white wash, like a modern 'Lawrence of Arabia'.It bothered me so much that I didn't make beyond 7.42 minutes, because in combination with the really bad acting, this show was unbearable to watch. Moreover, in reality Tutankamun was severely disabled by skeletal disease, and could likely not stand up straight unaided, much less be a fierce fighter. One word: 'ugh'. Muse Entertainment should be ashamed of themselves.Muse Entertainment should be ashamed of themselves.

I'm visiting Egypt for the second time, next week, and this series is a real tonic! Wow! Fast paced, wonderful scenery, great sets, lovely costumes and a powerful script. Very cool indeed. Why the Mitanni kings are black, though, defies logic ... they were from Syria. I guess the producers wanted black representation in ancient history, even though it never existed. Would black TV audiences really refuse to watch a miniseries about King Tutankhamun just because there were no black actors in it? Of course not! Grow up Hollywood!!!!The casting is superb, Tutankhamun is a dark, embittered youth, that kicks back at his historical portrayal as a teen aged victim of Egyptian politics, shades of Frank Herbet's DUNE. Ankhesunamen is fabulously gorgeous and Ay (Ben Kingsley), is perfect in his role.

Terrible script, irritating performances, historically goodness knows where and a huge disappointment. I felt this was a huge missed opportunity. It looked fabulous and I was expecting much but it when it went straight from the death of Akhenaten and a 9 year old future Pharoah to an eighteen [?] year old lad I started to lose interest. One of the things I would have been interested to see what the conflict that occurred when the boy king returned his country to the worship of the multitude of ancient gods rather than the Aten which his father had believed in. Just missed it out entirely and went to a lot of nonsense about miscarriages and such like. Ben Kingsley was fabulous as always but I hated pretty much everything else about this drama.