Bering Sea Gold

I started watching this from season one and have watched every episode. This was a very entertaining show until the last 2 seasons where it has just become silly, childish and at times just stupid. I now fast forward through the side interviews and other silly activities. Zeke and crew have lost their mind. The beavis and butthead "laugh" highlighted by the shows staff is one I fast forward through. The Steve Riedel episodes, Chris Kelly secrets to mining,,,,,, and others have all made this show really stupid. Now season 13 episode 9 started out with Disney type characters.

PLEASE get back to the scripting that made this show really good and not the kiddy antics now seen.

I really enjoyed this show. With all shows like this, drama is scripted in. For the most part, this show is realistic. The characters are rough, tough, high tempered individuals all looking to get that gold fix. The directors took time to share the stories (whether they were real or fake) of the characters. One of the better shows on gold mining I've seen. I also really enjoyed the camera angles that took you into the ocean right with the characters. If you want to learn about how gold dredging works, this is a great informative, but dramatized show. I would definitely recommend watching this, but don't expect it to be the best show in the world because it's definitely not.

It's a group of ragtag group of miners who are trying to find gold off shores off Nome, Alaska. There are the Pomrenkes father and son team who has a massive dredge. Scott Meisterheim is a perpetually angry drunk. Zeke Tenhoff is an obsessed driven young guy. Steve Riedel is the flake with her opera singer daughter Emily who is an amateur in this whole thing. While Vernon Adkison is an old guy who spends more money than he makes.

What I love about this show is two folds. I love the amateur and in many case experimental jerry-rigged equipment. There is no standard equipment for this type of work, and there's more duct tape than reasonably safe boats should have. I find the home grown science absolutely fascinating. The other is the distressed relationships of these people. There are some crazy personalities in this show. The only drawback like all 'reality' show is any faking. I can see some fudging going on especially with the money being discussed. The fact that so many of them do so badly seems to point to limited padding of the results. As for the dysfunctional relationship, the death of one of the divers also point to limited faking. It doesn't mean that something isn't being faked. 'Reality' isn't always reality nowadays.

We are amazed that you have ruined this show with the most irritating pair of father and daughter morons, slappable ,pretentious, hard to look at or listen to, ferret faced, big beaked worst excuse for entertainment possible jerk offs!!!

It has been a really interesting and entertaining show and was for a while, until the latest seasons. Not sure if they have new editors/production team or what, but they turned a really good show into a really, really bad and cheesy sitcom clown fiesta.