aaron senkbeil

Fantastic. A perfect blend of story telling and education. It makes me very happy and gives me hope to see producers put time and money into a educational show like this. In a time where it’s clearly easy and profitable to make the exact same garbage CGI Marvel movie again and again, it’s awesome to see some resistance and legitimate creativity. The balance of anthropomorphism and science is great, in true BBC style. It sparked imagination that I have not felt in a long time, I absolutely loved it.

Good footage, but same overall concepts and storylines as BBC. Feels like a rip off. I miss the actual scientific educational concepts in the first Blue Planet and Planet Earth by BBC. There is wayy too much color saturation and post processing, it feels like watching Instagram instead of a nature documentary. Literally anyone with one weeks knowledge of Lightroom or Photoshop can pick up on it. It also seemed that Netflix felt need to ‘show off’, there were too many instances of “This is the first time it’s ever been filmed”, which comes off as braggadocio’s. The overall professionalism of this series is subpar to BBC’s productions.