Atlas of Cursed Places

Watched the Bermuda Triangle episode. They would have been better off with a narrator and someone interviewing the experts off camera. This comes across like someones diary entry.

BTW the PBS show NOVA (Season 3, Episode 20 The Case of the Bermuda Triangle) debunked the Bermuda Triangle "mysteries" back in 1976.

I really enjoy the interesting take on studying paranormal subjects as it's a different point of view. Unfortunately, as we've seen too much of lately, science is being used intermittently to fit a narrative and it's laden with constant mainstream speak against society and its traditions.

Just awful, as soon as the world's most annoying voice over started my heart sank. This series pretends to be a scientific look at superstitions and paranormal myths but is filmed more like a fiction. The viewer is drowned in slow motion shots of the presenter doing not terribly much while he narrates very little of consequence. In fact the series over all is more interested in Sam than the actual content he's meant to be investigating, as he poses in the dark in set piece rooms. Is this how we make data crunching look edgy now rather than showing what actual hard work looks like? Or is it just over compensating for the fact that clearly a team of researchers has already cribbed the data for him? When people are interviewed who have actual facts to expound they're either overlaid with over the top music or we're left struggling to focus on their data thanks to wobbly camera angles. Moreover, the information that does get brought in is scanty and spread out over multiple advert breaks. Very, very little is achieved in the time slot compared to other programs tackling the same subject. The longer I watched this the angrier I began to feel that this is how Nat Geo is treating its viewers now. Remember when Nat Geo used to be respected for it's well researched and well presented content? Yes, I'm struggling too, as it seems like such a long time ago now. Seriously, decide what you are and do it properly NG, you're either a documentary or you're a fiction, make your mind up and respect your content as well as the intelligence of your audience.

Well !! It is quite eponymous with my review title. A tatooed, cool, muscle guy trying to seem edgy-sciency by spewing meaningless words like rational, plausaible, mundane, human mind playing tricks, mass hypnosis, myths. Oh and of course Occam's Razor, because nobody can be the edgy-sciency guy without uttering it. As another reviewer has said half of the show is slow motion shots of the presenter babbling those nonsense; "In fact the series over all is more interested in Sam than the actual content he's meant to be investigating, as he poses in the dark in set piece rooms." Someone just described RationalWiki as "Rationality is their flag, not their method." This show trying to emulate it is just the caricature of a caricature. It is absolute disaster.

I should have known exactly what this was going to be when I saw "NatGeo". The narrator tries to "hip" with lines like "Hell ya Bro! Lets go look for Atlantis". He also sounds very uneducated about many areas with often silly speculation and commentary. This is a superficial "history" show at best but more a way to sell advertising time. Really has been such a waste of your time that I made the effort to warn others. If you read very little and you find wrestling has challenging stories then you may find this very "educational". LOL