White Rabbit Project

Sorry for the broken English

The hosts are fun and friendly and the topics cover a range wide enough to suit most anyone's taste, also it's pretty fun to watch.

But it's all very light, whenever they cover a story that I find interesting, it leaves me with an immediate need to read about the subject cuz I just haven't learned enough, there's too little information in this show.

It's a pity that this program has been built for people who have the attention span of a 2 yo... sadly it seems to be the leading trend right now.

Anyhow, it's clean fun TV that gives an incentive to learn so I'll still give it a good 7,5/10.

Why don't the creators of this show like science???

They seem to think that the facts and stories in the show are not interesting enough by themselves. So they try to "improve" the "boring" science with weak jokes and a dumb ranking-system. Spoiler: it's not an improvement!

If you watch this show, just skip the intro and the "outro" = the 10 minutes of wasted time where they score the different stories against each other.

That way you skip all the stupid and are left with the core: a few (mildy) interesting science-related stories, which are nice to watch.

White Rabbit Project is the next project out of the "B team" of the now-finished show Mythbusters. Grant, Tori and Kari team up again to explore a variety of different themes and scenarios, with the same amount of stunts and gadgets.

Essentially, each episode explores a certain topic. For example, episode 2 explores six different prison breaks, before ranking them on an arbitrary scale from worst to best. In order to do this, the show uses a mixture of replicating the thing in question, docu-drama style explorations of the history/origin of the thing in question, comedy skits with the team and/or actors, and interviews with experts in the field.

The most pressing issue is that in many ways the show feels downscaled compared to mythbusters. There are less 'experiments' in this show compared to mythbusters, the show uses a lot more stock footage and low budget docu-drama segments than mythbusters ever did, which kinda sucks to be honest. In many ways, the show talks more than shows.

While that is a letdown, it doesn't make the show 'bad' in any way. Tori, Grant and Kari are all still highly entertaining to watch. Their on-screen chemistry holds up, cheesy jokes and all, and when they do do stunts, those stunts are pretty impressive. Stuff like re-making a makeshift hot-air balloon, for example, or training a pigeon to drive a drone by tapping on a touchscreen. There's some good stuff in here.

Also, a MAJOR plus due to the Netflix format is that the editing is far better and less annoying. If you remember Mythbusters, there was a lot of repetition in that show due to the ad breaks. If you were watching the show on DVD, the narrator would often say the same thing twice in a row because an ad break was supposed to be there in between. There's no issue here, and the show flows perfectly with no breaks or issues in pacing.

If you have a Netflix account, this is certainly worth the watch, especially if you or your kid liked Mythbusters back in the day.

I'm a huge fan of these guys and have been since they first appeared in Mythbusters. I enjoyed the last season of that show, but felt like losing these three was a big loss.

Therefore I'm super happy Netflix threw some bucks at them and got them their own gig, and it's a great time revisiting a gang who feel like old friends now - already this show gets a big pass from me.

My issue here really is with the presentation. Each subject they cover is LADEN with silly over-the-top sketch performances by the gang that easily eat up 60-70% of the screen time, with only 30% left over for the actual meat of the science. I realize that I'm in the minority of the public who find the tech stuff fascinating and the fluff, well, fluffy, but I could really do with a lot less "estrogen crazed Hitler dancing through the tulips" (in an especially egregious example of this from the "world war 2 crazy weapons" episode) and more fun experiments-gone-wrong. If they had cut out, for example, all of the "Farting Germans at a Cafe" and "Hitler gets boobs" feature-ettes from that episode they could have packed in at least a few more crazy weapon schemes which I would have found WAY more interesting.

To summarize, I watch a TON of hilarious sketch comedy shows already, when I want science I want to turn to these guys. Dial back the "acting" just a bit and you've got a winner.

I'm really disappointed White Rabbit Project ended up as meh as it was. I've always enjoyed the trio's segments on Mythbusters and while it was sad to see them leave the show, I was excited to see what they could accomplish with their freedom on Netflix. Instead, the show feels like a very high budget YouTube top ten list with occasional experiments here and there.

Each episode focuses on a general theme, such as superhero powers. Each of the three have two entries out of 6, generally with one being an experiment and the other being some small research and storytelling. At the end of every episode, the 6 entries are (supposedly?) averaged out and ranked on three criteria, like "how similar is it to the actual superpower." The problem I have with White Rabbit Project is that it doesn't play to the strengths that the trio had back in Mythbusters. Everybody works separately here, maybe showing up to an experiment as a test subject every once in a while, which is a far cry from their work in Mythbusters.

I would only recommend watching this if you have nothing else to watch and you liked the trio's work back in Mythbusters. There's definitely some good episodes in here, don't get me wrong, but even despite those good episodes, the majority of this show is forgettable.