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Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art — Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night              And watching, with eternal lids apart,              Like Nature's patient, sleepless Eremite,              The moving waters at their priestlike task              Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,              Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask              Of snow upon the mountains and the moors —              No — yet still stedfast, still unchangeable,              Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,              To feel for ever its soft swell and fall,              Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, ...

Tut is a Canadian-American TV miniseries that aired this past July on U.S cable network Spike. It is a three-part miniseries that focuses on the life and intrigues of Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Produced by the same company behind  Pillars of the Earth , the production strives to be a big TV blockbuster. The show stars Ben Kingsley, Avan Jogia, Alexander Siddig and Sibylla Deen, and it was brought to my attention due to the enormous controversy it caused (which I found out about during my research for the Cleopatra article). On the one hand, it was praised for its ethnically diverse casting, but, at the same time, it was heavily accused of whitewashing Egyptian history. This really spiked my curiosity and drove me to google the show. Some of what I saw was really interesting, other stuff... not so much. But, because I haven't seen it yet and won't have time to see it in a while (yes, it's a very long three-part show) I wanted to do a quick review focusing on first...