Earthstorm

If you've ever wanted to learn about natural disasters then this is the documentary series for you. Each episode focuses on a different natural disaster and goes all over the world documenting tons of real world events. There is also tons of archival footage as well as the series tries to show how our world was crafted and changed by natural disasters. This is a very good educational series. From volcanoes to tsunamis each episode delves into a different natural disaster and how they impact the environment and the people. Tragedy and devastation, but there are also good elements as well. The series in only 4 episodes only scratches the surface.

The power of the experiences of people who lived through the events is diluted by the tedious and over dramatic stories of storm chasers and the like. It's light on information and science and heavy on meandering and contrived storytelling. Its laden with earnest voices and a ploddingly doom-laden soundtrack that leaves you thinking that the only point of this is some kind of voyeuristic peep show on all the ways the earth can kill people. There's a huge reliance on impressive footage but precious little explanation of anything except 'wow, this was astonishingly awful'. It's classic Netflix fare when it comes to factual programming, simply not worth the time to watch.

Volcano was perhaps the best in a toss-up with Earthquake (bolstered by tsunamis). Admittedly they have little to do with storms but they were required because Tornado and Hurricane left a lot to be desired. When I began watching this I wanted to learn more about tornadoes (I did) but it seems there is a lot left out that would be interesting. The series ends on hurricanes, which I expected because it is the one we should have the most information about, therefore the most interesting. It wasn't.

Volcano was enjoyable and informative *spoiler* we are all going to die in a few hundred thousand years. Earthquake was similar to Volcano but I live nowhere I am too concerned. Tornado is a rehash of what we know but still worth the watch. It has been done better before. Hurricane should have been called Climate Change (why not? Volcanoes and Earthquakes are not storms) because they pointed to it at every opportunity. I will admit, the Climate Change angle was not as in your face until the last episode. If I rated each episode it would be 7/6/5/3.

The calming voice of the narrator underscores the devastation that each natural disaster causes on this planet. This show makes you feel so insignificant and helpless on this tiny planet. Some of them - volcanos for example, are so beautiful and breathtaking but so scary to watch too.

It's also extremely informative, and watching the geologists and scientists show you the history of these events and also how we can maybe protect ourselves and/or possibly slow down some of these events (climate change/global warming) is so interesting AND necessary to watch.

This is such an amazing show and an absolute must watch.

Each episode literally made my jaw drop a few times with various disaster footage. I only wish they could cover more stories and occurrences. I'd watch an entire season just on tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanos, earthquakes, etc.

Love the narrator's voice and the balance of education and entertainment.

With anything nature related these days, of course there are a lot of mentions of "climate change" and it comes off a bit "doomy" at times, but I still thought it was worth the watch. It'd be nice to just examine Mother Nature without always going off on how it's OUR fault when these events have been occurring for thousands, if not millions of years.