Expedition X - Dem Unheimlichen auf der Spur

The female investigator ruins the show for me. She does not add much to the show and gets scared every couple of minutes. Please replace her with someone (if there are any more episodes) with someone that does not come across as really annoying.

Somehow this show returned for a second season, and somehow it's even worse. This show has nothing to do with it's parent show, Expedition Unknown, where you are constantly given history and interesting facts/culture about said location from likable host Josh Gates. This show rather decides to rip off fake-ass ghost shows with every single trope those shows have, but done 10x worse and obviously more fake. I gave the show a second chance after its hiatus, and yet somehow they learned nothing from the first season and have doubled down on horribly made fake setups. The two hosts still consist of a girl most famous for licking a PSP and a guy that's an Instagram bug fanatic, both of which seem to absolutely hate eachother. The girl seems to think even the slightest cricket sound is a supernatural homunculus waiting to pounce from the underbrush, and the guy just seems to want to go home and down a glass of hard liquor to forget about the episode he just had to film. Both of them pretend to be scared of stock sound effects that they edit in post production, talk to crazy people/actors about their experiences with the creature of the week, fumble around in uninteresting dark places for 15 minutes, and then just give up after finding a prop they put on-site and calling it so-called "evidence", opting instead to call up and bother Josh to give him an "update" when it's clear he could care less and just wants to go back to sleep. It's paint-by-numbers ghost show and an incredibly boring slog to get through, and if Josh didn't appear you'd have no idea that this was connected in any way to Expedition Unknown. The only sheer amount of enjoyment I get out of watching this show is the commercial in-between where a lonely man buys his seemingly paralyzed guinea pig a new hat for Christmas whilst proceeding to take a picture of him. After that commercial is taken off the air, I will have no reason to watch this show.

If you want entertaining fake ghost shows, please for the love of god watch anything else.

I just finished the first season and I am appalled at the claim the Jessica Chobot is an "experienced" paranormal investigator! She freaks out at any potential contact and then she doesn't seem to have any ability to problem solve and look for logical cause for an experience. She automatically goes right to "it's haunted!". As someone who watched the series Ghost Hunters I find it hard to believe that she has any real experience as a paranormal investigator. This show would be much better if they would replace Jessica with a "real" paranormal investigator.

The biggest mystery about this program is how it ever got commissioned. Jessica is obviously as mad as a box of frogs, and will believe literally any old rubbish instead of the obvious truth. Phil is supposed to be the voice of reason, but all too often goes along with ridiculous scenarios instead of just pointing out it's a load of nonsense. Formulaic, preposterous, implausible.

This isn't a bad show to say the least. The cast of the show needs some work, but I like when this show hunts down monsters whether they exist or not. However I did not like how they added in fake screams in one of the investigations, but I guess that was for entertainment purposes. Overall, it's a nice spin off to expedition unknown with josh as the big boss. I don't believe people know what they are talking about when they give this show a terrible review. Why does joshes entire crew have to be involved? I guess people don't know what a change of pace looks like.