Sisi

I am not one of those who think "Romy Schneider is the only Sissi ever". No, the Romy movies were great fairytales, but Sissi's complicated and dramatic story would finally deserve a good historical drama.

This series is NOT that. I honestly wonder how the rating can be as "high" as 6 and how some people could like it so much they gave 8 or 10 stars. It is very bad, in every way.

It is even more inaccurate than the Romy movies, but that is least of the problem. The storyline is simply not interesting. The pacing is very bad, it does not work at all. Acting is average at best, in some cases it is awful and not at all believable. Characters are not written well, none of them has more than 1 layer. Sissi's character is boring and superficial, the "best friend" character is abolute nonsense. Franz J is the worst man ever in this - but that does not seem to be the writers' intentions, no, they think it is okay in 2021 to romanticize such a violent a man (not to mention that the real FJ was not like that at all). Besides, there is no chemistry between the "lovers". You watch it and simply can't understand why they love each other, other than being supposedly attracted to each others' good looks (which is very childish and even Disney tales go beyond than that nowadays).

If you want to watch a good Sissi movie, watch the 1950s movies.

If you want to watch something quite close to her real story and the real history of Europe in the 1850s and 1860s, watch the 2009 miniseries.

I honestly see no reason to watch this 2021 garbage. It is a complete waste of time.