Tut

Name: Tut
Genre: Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Educational
Released: July 19, 2015
Rating: 46
Cast: Alexander Siddig, Steve Toussaint, Silas Carson, Avan Jogia, Ben Kingsley

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Spike TV | SPIKE | Release Date: July 19, 2015

Starring: Alexander Siddig, Steve Toussaint, Silas Carson, Avan Jogia, Ben Kingsley, Iddo Goldberg, Sibylla Deen, Nonso Anozie, Peter Gadiot, Kylie Bunbury, Alistair Toovey

Summary: The six-hour miniseries dramatizes the struggles and challenges of King Tut's (Avan Jogia) reign as others in his circle including Grand Vizier Ay (Ben Kingsley), sister-wife Ankhe (Sibylla Deen), High Priest Amun (Alexander Siddig), and General Horemheb (Nonso Anozie) scheme for their own power.

Genre(s): Drama, Movie/Mini-Series, Educational

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S1:E3. Destiny
Air Date: July 21, 2015
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S1:E2. Betrayal
Air Date: July 20, 2015
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S1:E1. Power
Air Date: July 19, 2015

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Deborah Day

Jul 20, 2015

Season 1 Review: It’s a wonder Spike didn’t position Tut as an angst-filled teen drama. Kingsley steps in to ensure that doesn’t happen despite the production’s occasional seemingly period-inappropriate detail--jarring neon hair extensions and the like. Read full review

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Jul 17, 2015

Season 1 Review: The plotting and counter-plotting in Tut are meshed with some fairly ambitious battle scenes and pulsating full-gallop chariot rides. Not everything is telegraphed, with Grand Vizier Ay in particular a fairly nuanced man of deception and feints. Read full review

Tirdad Derakhshani

Jul 20, 2015

Season 1 Review: A largely enjoyable, if uneven three-night epic about one of the best-known rulers from Ancient Egypt: Tutankhamun. Read full review

David Wiegand

Jul 16, 2015

Season 1 Review: You might wonder about some of the script’s lapses in logic here and there, but most likely you’ll just shrug at them because Tut is primarily meant as an old-fashioned, blood, sand and sex epic with cool battle scenes, grunt-filled lovemaking, serviceable dialogue, CGI and papier mache sets and minimal heavy lifting on the part of Oscar winner Kingsley. He proves that he can glare with the best of them. Read full review

David Hinckley

Jul 17, 2015

Season 1 Review: The soap keeps generating suds, while Kingsley plays it solemn and serious. Clearly, the producers started with the premise they could make this Tut anything they wanted. They just don’t seem to have ever decided exactly what that was. Read full review

Mike Hale

Jul 17, 2015

Season 1 Review: Like a lot of period dramas, it settles for being slightly silly and mostly dull. Read full review

Rob Owen

Jul 16, 2015

Season 1 Review: Predictable/preposterous plot elements co-mingle with some terrible dialogue, silly situations (characters enter a room full of dead bodies on hooks but don’t cover their noses in disgust until they see the bodies; wouldn’t the smell be enough for them?) and occasionally poor acting. Read full review

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MagMachina

Mar 30, 2021

Tut is very truthful to the historic facts and still manages it to give it a great interpretation of why Tut could have been the greatest pharao of all. I am pretty sure he wasnt, but the story is very believable also because of very good dialogue and acting. You can see where it was limitedTut is very truthful to the historic facts and still manages it to give it a great interpretation of why Tut could have been the greatest pharao of all. I am pretty sure he wasnt, but the story is very believable also because of very good dialogue and acting. You can see where it was limited by the budget but who cares when the actors deliver .… Expand

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FilipeNeto

Nov 15, 2020

Personally, and although I like to watch it, I have a lot of itchiness with films and TV series based on historical material. They usually end up having so little rigor in the way they show the past and the real historical characters that they become worthy of my hatred or my disdain, as aPersonally, and although I like to watch it, I have a lot of itchiness with films and TV series based on historical material. They usually end up having so little rigor in the way they show the past and the real historical characters that they become worthy of my hatred or my disdain, as a historian. This series is another one, with an aggravating tone: we don't know as much as we wanted about Tutankhamun's life. In fact, as far as we know, Tutankhamun is one of the most unlit pharaohs of the dynasty to which he belonged. The story of his father, Akhenaten, is much more interesting in that he led a serious religious conflict in the heart of Egypt, a country where Pharaoh was also head of the state religion. However, it is not possible to escape the fascination that this young king has on us. He is, with his funerary mask, the face of Ancient Egypt.

The real Pharaoh Tut was born out of an incestuous union and began to reign around the age of ten. He married a half sister, with whom he had two daughters who did not survive childhood. The series addresses the problem of succession, but refers very briefly to these births and treats them as simple abortions. The series also takes the opportunity to create around the Pharaoh a web of intrigues and conspiracies involving the vizier Ay, who was head of the government, and the general commander of the army, General Horemheb. Both characters existed and came to reign, successively. One of the most wrong points of the series, from the point of life of historical rigor, concerns the Mitanni. The series portrays this kingdom in a way that, despite never placing it on the world map, seems to place it in present-day Sudan, reasonably close to Egypt for the characters to travel in just a few days' journey. The reality is, however, very different: the Mitanni kingdom was one of the Hurrian kingdoms and was located more or less in today's Kurdistan, far enough from the Egyptian capital to never represent a threat! Even more striking is the wrong way in which Tutankhamun himself is portrayed. In addition to his reasonably European features and white complexion, the pharaoh is shown to be a healthy person, even athletic and able to fight. In fact, and based on the analysis of his mummy, we know that Tutankhamun was fragile and would have had difficulty walking because he suffered from a mild form of scoliosis and a deformed foot. So forget the warrior pharaoh!

Now that we have seen how this series was able to run over history, the question remains: was it worth it? In fact, the series entertains, works well as an entertainment piece despite deceiving people and giving the wrong idea to Pharaoh! Reasonably well done and with an excellent cast, the series is decent.

The cast is strongly based on the performances of two specific actors: Avan Jogia and veteran Ben Kingsley. Both were effective in their work and knew how to act effectively, especially Kingsley, who gave Ay a Machiavellian aura. We also have the good performance of Kylie Bunbury, who gave life to the most emotional character and able to reach the public. Also admirable and praiseworthy were the efforts of Nonso Anozie and Iddo Goldberg. Sibylla Deen gave us the most fragile interpretation, but it was still quite convincing, especially in the scenes with the most dramatic load.

Technically, it is a series of average quality. Cinematography is quite good considering the TV quality that the series exudes. Using and abusing CGI and the green screen that everything makes possible, it was possible to recreate Egypt without great costs, although losing that pleasant feeling of realism. The royal palace with those overlapping floors, for example, is too fanciful to be credible and there are more problems of logic and lack of credibility to arise everywhere. This is the case of Egyptian military armor, clearly invented without the support of archeology, and having as its objective only and only the aesthetic criterion of production. The soundtrack is good, but of TV quality.… Expand

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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: July 19, 2015
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  S1:E3. Destiny
  Air Date: July 21, 2015
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  S1:E2. Betrayal
  Air Date: July 20, 2015
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  S1:E1. Power
  Air Date: July 19, 2015