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I was excited when I saw this advertised on Netflix. I thought it was a clever idea. The way the show talked about things like sky grazers as though it was an authentic documentary was interesting.

Unfortunately, we get a few minutes of these alien worlds, and the rest of it is set on Earth. For example, Episode 3 talks about grazers, predators, shows us a world of giant red mushrooms (the worlds themselves are very well designed) and then spends the majority of the episode teaching us about the life cycle of the mayfly on Earth, and hummingbirds. I have nothing against either of those things, and I learned a lot about mayflies and hummingbirds. It's just that this wasn't what I wanted to watch.

If the creative team had done something like "Walking with Dinosaurs" ("Walking with Aliens?") then this could have been a truly phenomenal series. As it is, there's nowhere near enough focus on the Alien Worlds, and what there is tends to be reused. The designers also seem to have been running out of ideas. Although the sky grazers and their predators in Episode 1 were very well designed, the grazers and predators in Episode 3 looked like big-eyed bunnies and six-legged bush babies respectively.

Let's hope someone actually takes this concept and does something worth watching with it in the future.