African Queens: Njinga

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Season 1
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 15, 2023
Season #: 2, 1
Metascore
69

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Ellen E Jones
    Feb 15, 2023
    40
    These dramatised sections are pretty workaday stuff, of the same indifferent quality you would expect from equivalent scenes in a daytime-scheduled, Channel 5 Tudors doc. ... In general it lacks context or deeper analysis beyond the straight recounting of Njinga’s biography.

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User Score
0.6

Overwhelming dislike- based on 7 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 7 out of 7
  1. theirrelephants
    Mar 7, 2023
    2
    Jada got this show because of her connections. That's the only reasonable explanation I have here.

    No wonder netflix is losing subscribers    Jada got this show because of her connections. That's the only reasonable explanation I have here.

    No wonder netflix is losing subscribers if this is their average 'original content' offering. Yeah they got a good review from a black supremacist website (Salon), but that even they couldn't give it above an 80 should tell you all you need to know.

    The interview sections are absolutely pointless and kill any interesting feelings the dramatization parts might have engendered. Just make it a fake drama or something.    … Full Review »
  2. Vandura
    Jun 7, 2023
    0
    The acting is absolutely dreadful, The historical inaccuracy is ridiculous and the costumes/set pieces look cheap. Adding Jada Pinkett Smith'sThe acting is absolutely dreadful, The historical inaccuracy is ridiculous and the costumes/set pieces look cheap. Adding Jada Pinkett Smith's narration makes it completely unbearable.… Full Review »
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