I guess the writers found the real Leonardo boring, so they added a preposterous investigation plot that is useless and irrelevant.
The series shines in the brief moments where we see his genius at work, when he interacts with other ones like Michelangelo, or when we discover some true but less explored sides of his personality, like how inconclusive he was, or his relationship with his father.
The rest is quite weak and uninteresting. Matilda is kinda wasted.
How woke is it?
shareHis muse is a black tranny?
shareQuite a bit, he is full gay and she (a servant/courtesan) is almost as smart as him (one of the greatest geniuses in history...), kids are treated as important, everybody in power is an evil asshole, etc.
But it's not annoyingly so, it doesn't seem to have a strong woke agenda at least.
Ugh, the gayness and the feminism is enough to put me off. I guess I should have known given that it's the BBC.
I'm surprised they don't have genius level blacks waltzing about giving Leonardo inspiration and instructions on how to create his next invention.
It was not a documentary
shareNo shit!
shareThere's a limit to what you can make up when you're dealing with historical figures. You can't just use the name and make up all the bs you want.
This review explains it better.
https://www.imdb.com/review/rw6789580
Leonardo, also based on what Giorgio Vasari tells us, was a boy and then an adult of extraordinary beauty and refinement whom he dressed in a sophisticated way. In the fiction Leonardo appears as little more than a rough boy with dirty hands and coarse ways. Leonardo, on the other hand, fascinated the greats of his time with his refinement and grace, the king of France wanted Leonardo with him only for the pleasure of enjoying his presence and being able to converse with him. Unfortunately, none of this transpires from the Leonardo of the fiction. [...] Many of these historical inventions could have been avoided, for example the quarrel between Leonardo and his father who accuses him of being a failure, or the refusal of Amerigo Benci, the father of Ginevra de Benci, most likely already dead when Leonardo made the painting. , to pay for his daughter's portrait because he did not like it.share