I like dinosaurs. I like Stephen Fry. I like immersive documentary series.
You'd think this series would be a slam dunk for me.
It was not.
Like almost every other review has pointed out, the CGI is bad. Really bad. 90s TV show levels bad. That's not an overreaction. This is genuinely some of the worst CGI I've seen out of schlocky B-movies in years. It's almost like they ran out of time and just threw a bunch of stuff together in the hope that no one would notice.
But I could easily look passed all that, if the show was at least informative. If it was at least an interesting show, that provided some interesting material, they could've used muppets as dinosaurs, and I still would've enjoyed it.
(possibly even more so)
And that's where the problem is.
It is absolutely rife with basic objective inaccuracies. Dinosaurs that are somehow 5-10 times heavier than they actually were, dinosaurs that just did not look the way we know they actually looked. Locations. Behaviours. Feeding patters. The list goes on and on.
It is genuinely shocking how much of the information portrayed in this show is just factually wrong. How did this ever make it to screen? Why was there no fact checking done on this? Why on earth did Stephen Fry attach his good name to this?
Unbelievable.