Just weeks after its release, Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse has been the subject of popular acclaim and critical scorn. Instantly rising to the video giant’s top ten shows, the series was branded “the most dangerous show on Netflix” by the Guardian. Progressives have excoriated it for being “anti-intellectual” and promoting “dangerous conspiracy thinking,” going so far as to tie the show and its presenter, journalist Graham Hancock, to what the Southern Poverty Law Center calls “close encounters of the racist kind.”
