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History 101: The Space Race (2020)
It was like reading an American high school book for teens
I mean I understand the USSR are the bad guys and all, but losing 6-2 to them in space race, and then calling it a win for being first to go to moon is just silly. The score counter in the show literally resets when the US lands on the moon and the score becomes 1-0 for some reason, and the "space race" turns into "race to the moon" as if that was the agreed objective. The rest of the episode refers to the space race as the first to do something, like spacewalk, first man, first space station etc.
72 Dangerous Animals: Latin America (2017)
This is not a documentary
Documentary
noun
1. a movie or a television or radio program that provides a factual record or report.
synonyms: factual program, factual film
This show should not be in the documentary category because it is more like a reality TV show for people who would get bored watching an actual documentary. It gives shallow inconsistent information about a bunch of animals and then proceeds to subjectively rank them in a game-show fashion. The music is melodramatic even in the most unrelated scenes, the narrator sounds like he's hosting Fear Factor, and the information given about the animals are completely arbitrary. The information varies from their venom etc, to their shamanic purposes and how shamans curse those who hunt the animal without holy permission etc. The ranking criteria is non-existent; the show claims to 'rank' the most dangerous animals, but then proceeds to rank non-deadly ants, venomous frogs, and stingrays in the same criteria, which is never clarified and is totally absurd. I still do not understand their rankings, is it pain, lethality, chance of encounter? Can anyone imagine BBC Planet Earth ranking biomes or species, it's just stupid. On top of this, the experts who are interviewed are not relevant in their fields, and gives the impression that the documentary makers just interviewed whoever they could get a hold of. This is as documentary-like as a History channel special about Aliens and Thanksgiving. If you're looking to get informed about wildlife, toxins, biology, or anything factual, then steer clear of this show. However, if you just want to sit down with your friends, get drunk, and mindlessly watch a weird gameshow-reality TV-documentary mashup, for giggles, then this show will not disappoint you.