Our Planet: What the Must Watch Reviewers think
Must Watch reviewers Scott Bryan and Hayley Campbell share their thoughts on Our Planet, the new David Attenborough series on Netflix.
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Scott says: "Are we all going to talk about the same moments as we would if it was on the BBC?"
"It’s of the same standard - and it’s made by the same people who did the original Planet Earth, Blue Planet and Frozen Planet first time around: Alastair Fothergill and his production team Silverback.
"So what is really quite fascinating is that it’s got all of these moments, pretty much from the off, that are very much on the verge of being 'big' TV moments - apart from the fact that it’s not live TV.
"And I just wonder whether we’re all going to be talking about those moments, as we would have done if it was on the BBC.”
Photo Credit: Gisle Sverdrup/ Silverback/ Netflix
Hayley says: "They put the agenda front and centre"
“The birds are so great, I love watching all of the stuff that the males do to try and have sex with the females. There’s one bit where there’s this beautiful blue bird, and he involves three of his mates in a choreographed dance to try and impress this dowdy-looking female bird, and it’s just like what happens in an All Bar One.
“Another thing I like about this show is that they put the agenda front and centre.
"So, in the previous shows Attenborough would show you something beautiful and then the last 10 minutes of the show would always be – anyway, here’s how it’s dying. And so you’d leave sort of heartbroken.
"But at the beginning, in the very first episode, he says 'this is a beautiful world, and it’s falling apart, we’ve got maybe 20 years to fix it.' So I like that this is a hopeful kind of show.”
Our Planet comes to Netflix on Friday 5 April 2019.
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