Monsters Underground

This show is so contrived that it is hard to watch. The "locals" all look and sound like actors. The actors don't use any kind of believable scientific investigation techniques, and they lack chemistry and appeal. At least Josh Gates (Destination Truth, Expedition Unknown) is funny, and treats his criptid investigations very tongue-in-cheek. That's entertainment. These guys and their writers could take lessons.

This show reminds me of "Mountain Monsters". Some guys go out build a trap to catch a monster, and each has a niche they fit in. It is entertaining, although some what over the top. But, we do not know everything that is out there.

This is possibly the worst scripted cryptid TV show I have ever seen. They are pretending its not scripted, but it clearly is. I have never ever given a 1 star out of 10 to any show, but in this case I had to make an exception. My wife and I laughed quite hard throughout the entire first episode simply because it was so clearly fake and downright ridiculous.

For example: The cryptid hunters corner their "cryptid" in a cavern underground in pitch black conditions. They manage to view the 'creature' on their thermal at a distance of some 30 feet. They are locked and loaded with a tranq dart gun and about to bag a cryptid for the first time and make world headlines. So what happens? They shoot the dart gun, and instead of going to check on their targeted creature they automatically turn around and run out of the cave pretending as if they are being chased all the way by some huge bat creature. Now when they had this 'thing' on the thermal imager it looked like a human underneath a blanket. Once they finally reach the entrance to the cave, they put a net over the entrance to "protect themselves" in case it chases after them. They never once go to collect the tranq'd creature and instead just high tailed it out of there like cowards. Then they decide to call it the end of the expedition, and even have the guts to call it a success! What a joke. At the end they stated that they got physical dna evidence, but not once during the show did they state that they got any. Downright terrible. How on earth did this even get on TV? You cant even understand whats happening as the episode is so poorly put together. I decided to check out the second episode that's supposed to be at a different cavern location around the USA; however, everything looked the same as in the first episode! The same cave entrance, the new monster in episode 2 looked the same as the one on episode 1! In fact I am pretty sure that they filmed ep1 and 2 at the same location and just said that they were different locations. They said the first was a volcano, but not once did we see a mountain, it looked more like an abandoned well in both episodes.

What a joke!

Second episode just made it so clear it's all acting, the big redneck guy who thinks he can "fist fight any creature" purposely makes it look like something pulled him into the water when he pokes something with a tip to take DNA for what they are searching for.... Until you slow it down a bit and see that he purposely jumped in.. WITH A DIVE TEAM ready to pull him out! If it was realistic he would have flipped the plastic blown up raft since he weighs about 250+.. The director is so bad he could even hide the fake action of him purposely jumping in... Last note... They were showing camera angles as if you were looking threw the eyes of the creature.... Doesn't anyone know that camera isn't the actual creature.... It's definitely below a 0.... And they never tell you any results from the "DNA they collected"

A Destination America TV Series Show' (Monsters Underground) great sound effects but that's about all you can expect from this TV series. No monsters, nice try Destination America trying to fool the masses by sucking them into your TV show. it took only one 30min show for me to turn it off. you would think they could come up with something better than this' ~> how about calling it, creepy crawler cave dweller's ?, boy's in the cave' boys night out, cave man dream's, cave monger's, insect caves, hole in the ground, but cracks in cave's , just about cave time, on my way to the cave, sound effects in caves, these fit's the show much better........... what a dud' hey but if you want to amuse yourself with a bunch of guys with flash lights crawling around inside of caves then this show is for you, just a warning do not expect to see any type of strange things or anything close to monsters, its just a TV series trying to get ratings' so have a go at watching it, after 30min you will turn it off like I did' ...on land Giant Gators and giant snakes are about the only things that come to close to a monster on earth. all the others are just myths. none has ever been proved nor will they ever be. the only thing that will spook you at night is a big owl....... they can scare the boots off you' they make strange sounds as well' have fun' it was a dud to me, I give it a 10 thumbs down out of 10.