I have enjoyed watching this show before bed, and contemplating some of the more interesting ideas presented. We do know that history has been rewritten to remove many women, science, culture, etc. This show explores a lot of alternative ideas that at times do seem fairly plausible, but within seconds of a fact check, nothing really holds up. For example, one episode looks at the man in the iron mask. We have some documents about this man, but don't know his identity. One of the expert historians made completely false statements that had no basis in what I could find online. It was said that this mask was literally riveted front and back to this man's head, so that it could not be removed until he died 34 years later. This was treated as fact and a basis for the episode. Nothing found has really ever suggested that this happened. Another time they quote Princess Elizabeth talking about having gone to see him, but this didn't happen. She wrote a letter about what she had heard in court, dated 8 years after his death.
I wouldn't really trust anything this show stated as any kind of truth. Facts and statements are frequently completely false or inaccurate. I found it entertaining, but was consistently so frustrated because this could have been a great source of information had it been accurate, and conspiracy theorists hadn't been given a platform to state their ideas as fact.
I wouldn't really trust anything this show stated as any kind of truth. Facts and statements are frequently completely false or inaccurate. I found it entertaining, but was consistently so frustrated because this could have been a great source of information had it been accurate, and conspiracy theorists hadn't been given a platform to state their ideas as fact.