If you can accept the "revisiting" of history with a black queen and wealthy, powerful black people in the time of slavery as well as the use of contemporary music, I would think the gratuitous soft core porn would be the most realistic part of the show. Personally, it took me a while but eventually my lust for Rege-Jean Page got the better of me and I watched the whole damn thing. Brings us back to the days of Dynasty and Knots Landing . . . in period costume.