Critics vs. audience
on rottentomatoes, it's currently "rotten" with a 58% critics score, but on imdb, it has a 9.0 rating. what's wrong here? (i haven't seen the show yet)
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Audience score has become much more manipulated. Reviews and be written by AI and you wouldn't tell apart from a real one. As a precaution, if we're talking about a movie or series released by a big company, deduce 2-3 points from the 1-10 score.
Taking into account that the series seems to have abandoned the "going the full woke path", but it stills keeps some woke tropes (pakistani Yenefer and some diversity cast), that critics score is probably not too biased. If you deduce 3 points from the 9.0 score you'd had a 6.0, which is close to the critics's one. I think that would be an accurate score.
I didn't even know Yenefer was Indian/Pakistani. She looks white to me. That seems to be a fail.
The token characters utterly made up like that black elf with Ciri is another story.
Yenn is played by a Brit, according to Wikipedia: "Chalotra was born in a British-Indian family. Her father is of Indian descent while her mother is English. She grew up in Lower Penn village in South Staffordshire, UK"
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