Australie : La Ruée Vers l'Or

I get the impression the editors are desperate to create the story than just record the story as it was meant to be. Some later events seem fabricated. People are often repeating themselves too. I appreciate that filming people just wandering about silently listening to weird noises from a machine that tells them where a "target" might be located may appear boring, but clearly this is the job. It's what prospectors largely do. The editors need to scrap a lot of the dross in their episodes and pare them back to the interesting normal events, not make things up or force things to happen. HOWEVER, I learned a lot about prospecting by watching these Series and find the characters very interesting and likeable. It just needs more judicious editing.

What is it with the background music? Overpowering and distracting from programme content. No need for it. You just lost one viewer.***************************************

An enjoyable show about hunting gold in the outback.

Brought back memories of my 55 business trips to Australia for 2-3 weeks where I also got some time to hike the Outback, Olgas or Ayres Rock (Uluru).

Love the beauty and danger of the outback and these 3 teams are quite different from each other and present different levels of hunting for gold and all are interesting.

Well worth watching on Netflix.

Despite some overly dramatic scenes here and there, I really love this show and ALL the characters in it. Even makes me want to buy a detector and a lease. Just FYI, there's no WAY I'm gonna be straying on to Vern's lease!!!!!

The early seasons depicted actual gold hunters wandering about the outback looking for gold. It showcased the challenges associated with trying to find gold with metal detectors and small operation mining equipment.

Unfortunately, the producers became bored with reality and felt the need to introduce "tension" into the show. Now we are treated to desperately untalented actors repeating every two minutes how if they don't find gold they won't have gold. As if this were some deep revelation worthy of repetition because we could never figure that out for ourselves. It's insulting. Minor, routine situations - a split hose, a fly bite, rain, summer heat - are treated as though they are life and death situations. They aren't, and no amount of "if we don't fix this our season is over" can transform a flat tire into something exciting. It's all moronically simpleminded. Worse, it isn't interesting or compelling or worthy of our time.

Early seasons were an 8, later seasons a 2.