"Beyond Oak Island" digs deep into the many treasure quests across the globe, revealing amazing new details and clues from past searches--and in some cases, advancing the hunt."Beyond Oak Island" digs deep into the many treasure quests across the globe, revealing amazing new details and clues from past searches--and in some cases, advancing the hunt."Beyond Oak Island" digs deep into the many treasure quests across the globe, revealing amazing new details and clues from past searches--and in some cases, advancing the hunt.
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THEIR business plan. Not YOURs. On paper this makes sense.What started as a simple search for treasure on Oak Island, supposed to last a season or two, has become a multi-year never-ending story. In the BUSINESS of syndicated TV, the only way to cash in on that is to spin-off something with the same actors, crew, producers etc. Big bucks. As long as the customers ... err ... viewers ... go for it ....?
Too scripted, with Matty being such a blatent brown-noser and the two Lagina brothers so full of themselves, it's difficult to take seriously.
I had it at 4 stars, but while writing this, decided to drop to three.
I had it at 4 stars, but while writing this, decided to drop to three.
The premise here is two brothers who can't find anything on Oak Island have some insights to offer other treasure hunters? Who thought that was a good idea? Unless those insights are "save your money" it's difficult to see what the Laginas bring to the table.
Each episode presents a treasure hunt in the US. The intro voice over promises a worldwide scipe, but in three seasons the world has consisted of Arizona and Florida.
Occasionally an episode is on a professional salvage effort, but mostly it's amateurs with a story about as believable as Oak Island. As you might expect, the professionals find something (minor) during the course of the show while the amateurs find nothing but more "clues" to the "mystery".
The Lagina Brothers are the draw here, but rarely do they appear in the episode beyond being an audience for some cockamamie treasure story and a recap of the failure to find anything at the end. Instead, we're treated to Matty Blake, the obsequious lap dog mascot from the Curse of Oak Island show. He's hard to watch, if only because he brings literally nothing to the proceedings. It would have been much better to field a geologist or archeologist or established treasure hunter or even just someone you'd like to have a beer with.
The major failing of the show beyond Matty is that the amateurs never find anything. Each episode with them ends on a preposterous note: it's going to rain, it's getting dark, we need a bigger shovel. All problems readily solved the next day. But no, the episode ends. This is an insulting plot device to hide the fact the audience has been duped and the treasure story was fabricated nonsense from the outset.
Three stars for a couple episodes where we learn of actual salvage efforts. No stars for the amateur stories and for Matty Blake. Three stars.
Each episode presents a treasure hunt in the US. The intro voice over promises a worldwide scipe, but in three seasons the world has consisted of Arizona and Florida.
Occasionally an episode is on a professional salvage effort, but mostly it's amateurs with a story about as believable as Oak Island. As you might expect, the professionals find something (minor) during the course of the show while the amateurs find nothing but more "clues" to the "mystery".
The Lagina Brothers are the draw here, but rarely do they appear in the episode beyond being an audience for some cockamamie treasure story and a recap of the failure to find anything at the end. Instead, we're treated to Matty Blake, the obsequious lap dog mascot from the Curse of Oak Island show. He's hard to watch, if only because he brings literally nothing to the proceedings. It would have been much better to field a geologist or archeologist or established treasure hunter or even just someone you'd like to have a beer with.
The major failing of the show beyond Matty is that the amateurs never find anything. Each episode with them ends on a preposterous note: it's going to rain, it's getting dark, we need a bigger shovel. All problems readily solved the next day. But no, the episode ends. This is an insulting plot device to hide the fact the audience has been duped and the treasure story was fabricated nonsense from the outset.
Three stars for a couple episodes where we learn of actual salvage efforts. No stars for the amateur stories and for Matty Blake. Three stars.
Only seen the first episode, but it seems to be padded out even worse than the Curse of Oak Island.
They are using the same contrived reactions where anything they need to emphasise shows the same reaction (sharp look sideways to whoever is nearby). This is boring now.
The Oak Island series feels overstretched now and this feels like a step too far.
I know. This is on the HISTORY Channel and should be about history, but I was expecting the folks to spend more time in the present 'digging' up history. In the second episode, they spent almost 30 minutes talking about the exploits of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (and even the Dalton Gang), but less than 15 minutes of Gary Drayton being on location searching for anything. Seems like they need too much filler material in the episodes somewhat like they do with The Curse of Oak Island and fill it in with old material from previous seasons
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- ConnectionsReferenced in The Curse of Oak Island: Drilling Down: The Making Of (2021)
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