The story of Empress Elizabeth is a dramatic one and could well entertain and inform just based on historical accuracy. But Hollywood and film making in general can never leave well enough alone and just tell the story. They have to romanticize it to the point of utter none and lunacy. I do watch and read a lot of history but even if you haven't, I think most people would realize that no matter how much of a "free spirit " Sisi was in reality, she would never have had the endless unsupervised freedom to roam as she does in this series as a young single girl and then as fiancée to an empower. It is sheer silliness to portray her riding off alone into the night to follow him to a brothel, I.e and proceeds to get even sillier when she enters and pays to watch. She just happens to have a full purse to bribe the madam. But it gets worse and if you watch it this far you can see for yourself.
Sisi's ever free flowing hair is another joke. No female over the age of about 7 would have worn her hair down in front of men, not even family. Yes her hair was her pride but even so.
If you don't know about Sisi and don't care about historical accuracy then by all means, watch it as a fantasy very very loosely based on a once real person. The political situation is real enough and represented as such but the rest is dross.
Sisi's ever free flowing hair is another joke. No female over the age of about 7 would have worn her hair down in front of men, not even family. Yes her hair was her pride but even so.
If you don't know about Sisi and don't care about historical accuracy then by all means, watch it as a fantasy very very loosely based on a once real person. The political situation is real enough and represented as such but the rest is dross.