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Cosmos: Possible Worlds (2020)
Excellent scientific series
As the original Cosmos 1980's series by Carl Sagan and the more recent 2014 reboot, Niel deGrasse Tyson provide us with the wonders of nature, and more importantly insists on the values of scepticism and evidence based science that constitutes a great introduction for kids who would like to begin a career in science.
I fear the strongly atheistic/anti-theistic message (he is surely not agnostic) may pose some problems with parts of the audience. Although it is true that the only sure and provable fact about gods is that they were invented by humans, spirituality is a fundamental liberty that is admissible anywhere science cannot access; and that is a vast domain. In a nutshell you can believe in any God, anybody is welcome to start scientist to understand the wonders of
How the Universe Works (2010)
Appalling mix of hard science and beliefs
Scientists are use to convey as a concensual autority argument a dangerous mix of true hard science and beliefs ranging from far fletched unlikely hypotheses to outright mistakes. It would not be necessary so problematic with some context on what is sure what is likely and what is possible and what we would love being true, or maybe a debate showing the existence of different possible interpretations.
As for most shows for American broadcast, it repeats itself again and again with summaries and resumes of the summaries, in the end it is a dogmatic piece of catechism where the story is more important than proven facts and evidences.
=> the new "cosmos" series although less episodes are available is an incomparably better option, I cannot understand how this show can obtain such a good mark.