Le Mystère d'Oak Island

Hideously slow, repetitive garbage built around some possibly interesting history.

These "treasure hunters" dig and gouge their way through Oak Island, instantly assuming everything they find is Norse or Roman and another clue to the treasure they seek. Each episode has a nugget of story stretched out to fill a 1-hour time slot. They stand around and talk and talk and talk.

There's an old cross, an old coin, a concrete wall, a mysterious cavern, a rock with "carvings," etc. With every "find," they jump to an array of conclusions that always hark back to the mythic Roman or Norse explorers from two centuries ago. Nothing is ever substantiated. The "experts" they consult add nothing to the endless blather.

I'd give the story 8-9 stars but the production is just awful. Hey Rick, step on that rock over there. "A rock? On Oak Island? Could this be a rock stepped on by renowned pirate John Laffete? Or slept on by the Knights Templar who may have brought treasure from Jerusalem like the Arc of the Covenant? Or maybe it was used in writing the Magna Carte, or to identify the location of other buried treasure?..." Criminies.

And next time you go diving in a murky hole you think is connected to the sea, maybe a good idea to pump a 100K gallons of clean water in first? Just sayin...

The narrator is a living meme. "A rock...?! 78 feet below the surface...?! Could this be the key to the fabled treasure...?!?" Other than the stretching things out waaaay too long and the broken record narrator, the show is interesting and fun, and I like most of the characters. Just ready to see it wrapped up, for Pete's sake. 😉

The Lagina brothers have already found their treasure.

It is not at the bottom of the money pit.

It is in the heads of the gullible millions who think they can substitute their lack of historical knowledge with a "potentially significant" rusty nail. The same trick week after week, month after month, season after season.

These two clever chaps have got an army of addicted old boomers who think they are about to witness the last thrill of their life: finding out what was it all about.

It doesn't matter if there is a treasure on the island somewhere, the point is to always be just on the brink of finding it. "This season they will solve everything" the addicted pray. Like going to church to get your periodical fix of delegating responsibility for solving the mystery of life to someone else, someone with an elaborate story that can't be solved easily but promises to unlock something important, eventually. "Maybe we can keep them interested one more year" the brothers pray with each new season, and their prayer has been heard 9 times in a row already. I'm sure that at the end of this season they will be very close to solving it, again. Next year the same, the gods of TV ratings willing. And in the decades to come millions more will flock to the island to marvel at the altar of the "potentially significant" rusty nail.

The Laginas are digging in the hearts and minds of tv junkies and have already struck gold there. Congratulations!

Let the illusion of the almost solvable Oak Island mystery continue ad infinitum. Amen!

Since I haven't read all 189 reviews that's shown to exist, I cannot know if anyone else has thought of my admittedly wild theory. I am glad that Rick & Marty Lagina decided to undertake the ''mystery'' of this island with the kind of equipment to try to accomplish something along with the know-how to operate this equipment however, due to the structure of the island, I honestly don't believe they'll uncover everything they hope to. In my opinion, most of the island is not naturally formed. I do believe there was a small island in the beginning, but that original existing island was built up, out, and around over time to build this pit & truly be able to bury or hide??? I cannot see how the original ''Money Pit'', as it's now known as, could have been built to the depth it is unless the island was structured around it. Along with the depth of the pit, all of the flood water booby traps as well could not have built unless the island was built up by layers. The ''Lagoon'', as it's referred to, is another detail of the island which I cannot see as being natural. The fact that there are so many flood water traps at located at several levels in the pit clearly indicates to me that the island had to be built up in layers. In the episode showing the dye test which located several openings which the dye flowed out of into the surrounding water, in my opinion, clearly indicates that the island had to be ''DESIGNED & structured'' by someone. Yes, I'll agree that it could be possible that if & when the pit might have been dug, these water channels could've been discovered & their effluents or outflow channels & openings might've been enlarged to create these traps however, I honestly believe it would be extremely tricky to successfully dig a hole that deep with all of these ever present openings. With the island being 36ft. above sea level (I'm guessing the top of the pit is a few feet below that) & with theories saying the pit could be 200ft.deep, the water pressure from the ocean would be approx. 72psi (200ft. minus 34ft. equals 166ft. X .433 = + or - 72psi). Even at depths of 90ft. which had previously dug down to, the pressure would be around 23-24psi. With my 20 some years of experience working in the water treatment & distribution field, I know that only 23psi is enough pressure to break open an already present & weak mud/sand opening to an extremely free-flowing channel of water. To me, all of these details seems to make it nearly impossible (anything's possible) for people to have successfully dug a pit so deep into an existing island. When they discovered what appeared to be an obvious man-made opening in the ''lagoon'' was the 1st yet final detail that clinched it for me that the island had to have been built up around the pit. Will anything of any significance ever be found? Besides the occasional coin, bones, more coconut fiber, and timbers, , , ,I don't see how. However ''ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE''.