Anyone else tried this on Netflix? Couple of episodes in but a bit mixed on it. The documentary bits and the more political dramatisations are generally good but the battle scenes end up being a bit too much geared towards "Rule of Cool", e.g. the Ottomans seem to have a bit of a studded black leather fetish, the commander of the "Heavily armoured Genoese" is cavorting around the battle field with nothing but a shirt and breastplate, duel wielding his two back scabbard swords  plus all the usual nonsense tropes of fire arrows, flaming torches and other such historical fantasy...

I'm not too concerned about suspension of disbelief in a silly action film and the like, that's just entertainment, but when it's presented as documentary it can be pretty jarring...

Anyone else had a similar experience, or am I being too harsh?

Started watching it but it just didn't grab me. The history bits were good but the dramatic reconstructions in between I could do without.