Curious and Unusual Deaths

I would have easily given this series an 8 or 9, but the overworking of the title is horrible. As others have pointed it out already, most of the times it feels extremely disrespectful towards the victims and their families. Other times it feels they are trying to turn serious and horrific tragedies into dark humor, but I am certain the humor really doesn't go well even within that category.

If you want to enjoy watching it, then my suggestion is that their template will be pretty obvious after you watch a couple of episodes. Just skip 10-20 secs as soon as you realize this template is coming

'stupid humor--> led to --> Curious and Unusual death'

The Narrator has a deep and soothing voice, I pity the poor guy who always had to keep saying what his idiotic writer wrote for him.

These are indeed interesting and usually unexpected ways to die. The re- enactments are supplemented by factual information provided by experts, either in a general (scientific) sense or while extrapolating the specific circumstances that had to take place in order for the unique fatal event to occur.

Can work as cautionary tales, but my biggest objection is that the narration appears to be attempting to make light of the misfortune experienced by the victims. This doesn't work because in 98% of the cases the victims couldn't have possibly known that they were putting their lives at risk. These people, in most cases are not stupid deaths, and as a result the narrative tone does them a huge disservice and strikes me as very disrespectful. That is the only reason I dropped my score as much as I have.

Despite this I do see merit in the program, and it is the essentially my only objection to the show. As the first reviewer states, this is not for the squeamish or delicate (although none of the depictions are particularly graphic), but there is still valuable and intriguing information contained within the contents of this show. Definitely worth watching for the right audience and as a learning tool.

I could not agree more with what one reviewer, who said "constantly working in the title of the show at the end of every story was extremely irritating". Seriously. It's so bad that I came here just to review on how obnoxious and irritating this is. What a headache. It's a shame because the show is otherwise quite a great idea.

I would watch it for the knowledge you can gain and the warnings. However it is odd and more unnerving than need be. Overdoing and dragging out the drama, trying to make cute or clever segway and summaries, repeating scenes and lines over and over. With a little change this could really be my of tea.

"Curious and Unusual Deaths" is a creepy Canadian television series that is currently streaming on Netflix. Not surprisingly, it's not a show for the squeamish, as it's all about death. However, in a morbid way it is fascinating and very watchable. Each episode consists of several deaths being described and re-enacted along with experts discussing the unusual deaths. The deaths in each show all have some sort of similarity (such as those about sports in the first episode and do it yourself projects in the third in season two).

While I enjoyed the show, the quality of the research seemed iffy at times. Without even trying to find mistakes, I quickly noticed two. In episode 1, the narrator talked about a guy trying to catch kingfish and walleye in the Gulf of Mexico. Well, I live along the Gulf and would LOVE to catch a walleye...but can't because they are freshwater fish and are found no where near the Gulf. Also, episode 3 talks about a strange death in New Carrollton, Maryland---a town I lived near for over 20 years. Yet, oddly, they mispronounced the name at one point and no one seemed to catch it. These things certainly did not ruin the show, but made me wonder why the mistakes weren't caught by someone associated with the show.

UPDATE: Since my review, I've seen some more episodes. The fifth one of season two is problematic, as the murder of Rasputin is clearly overstated and filled with myth. Sloppy. And, in the next episode, they repeated a myth about British pilots and carrots. REALLY sloppy!