Jessica Lennox

I love a period piece, like thrive off of it. Especially one that is slow paced where you can feel (in your own way) what is happening to the people on the screen. However, I am at a loss for words with this one. While watching this show, I was excited to "learn" about the first surgeon to successfully perform an open heart surgery. I quickly googled who it was when it happened in the show. Much to my surprise, it is in fact an African American man by the name of Daniel Hale Williams who performed the first successful surgery in 1893. Who started out as a barber in Wisconsin and became fascinated by a local physician, eventually following his path. Not a white alcoholic English man of - what I presume - an upper class status in the show - that is literally set in 1893. I am actually quite shocked Apple TV wasn't sensitive towards this. After skimming some of the other reviews, this show seems like it's based off of a book. Maybe in this fictional book the character who performed this extremely fascinating, life saving surgery was a white English man on the shorter side. But in today's world shouldn't that be enough to say - eh, let's pick a more realistic story line that actually captures the magnificent extent to this kind of triumph? Especially when there really isn't a serpent in the end. Anyways, 2 stars for the way it was filmed, weighed next to the 0 stars for historical accuracy/sensitivity.