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The worst travel documentary ever?
I must say that I only watched first episode and do not intend to watch this garbage further. First episode is about North-Alaska and Canada. It starts with ice melting in Alaska, which is OK but I noticed that the "Author" missed many other things/facts about Alaska. Than started part about Canada. There were 3 stories there. One is about oil companies which are "ruthless" and "evil". To prove this author showed us woman who lives in a shed without electricity and water for years. Because she is poor. And she is poor because big fat companies did not give her anything. I wander would she be poor if there were no companies. Of course she would. One is not poor because someone did not give you charity but because you did not earn what you need to live decently. Then we are told a story about hundreds or thousands of indigenous women in Canada-missing. I won't say it is not true but even if it is, it has nothing to do with the theme of the series. I have been in Canada so I can compare their social system and quality of living with other countries and so I can say it is the best and most humane of any in the world including the "author's" country. Then we are shown Vancouver, city which is in every list of most beautiful cities in the world and the one best for living. However we were not told that. We were shown the dirtiest street in it with homeless persons and drug users. So according to the "Author" Canada is the dirtiest country in the world, hell on earth, where people live in the worst living conditions without water and electricity, where thousands of women are missing for some reason, which no one investigates. And that is all from Canada, no National parks, no lakes no Toronto, Montreal, Niagara falls, Bannf, no best social and health system in the world. I have been there and I know everything is completely the opposite but what about people who know nothing about that country and believe what they see on TV?
And one more thing, besides being biased and full of really bad journalism, it is also a low effort product and technically amateurish. Basically second largest country in the world (10 million square km) is presented with material shot in 100 square meters, (one shed in the woods and one street), with author's face on the screen 80% of the time. Michael Palin he is not.
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- adisgolos
- Oct 18, 2020
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By what name was The Americas with Simon Reeve (2019) officially released in Canada in English?
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