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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 8200210" data-attributes="member: 6879661">Netflix counts every shows viewing the same, regardless of the method by which it counts them. It’s all relative. So when Netflix says it’s the most watched show, it’s the most watched show.You do understand that it’s fiction right and artistic license? In the same way that Pride and Prejudice is fiction or Dickens. I watched an all male cast perform Twelfth Night in the theatre before lockdown. That was how all Shakespeare was performed originally... though not at all accurate eh?The music is also not historically accurate either, being classical adaptions of pop songs. However we hear the music as they would have heard it, contemporary for its time. In the same way we see the cast as they would have seen it, contemporary for our time. In a toss up between historically accurate (as a result of atrocious racism) and accessible then I’d pick the latter every time.I think the ratings have demonstrated that we don’t need to exclude everyone who isn’t white Caucasian from casting in order to create a successful piece of period entertainment. You’re crazy if  you think this is just the result of the authors loyal fan base.It’s a shame your parents couldn’t look beyond the colour. Be it costumes or otherwise.</blockquote>