All the Sharks

The show has been produced with the usual tics of the genre. .... But whatever massaging has been applied, “All the Sharks” is real enough. .... In the bargain, we learn not a little bit about shark behavior and biology, and there is an implicit, sometimes explicit, conservation theme.

All the Sharks has the potential to bring David Attenborough fans and competitive reality TV connoisseurs together for the first time in history.

The “four elite teams of shark experts” on the show set out to “hunt down every shark species possible and capture them all—through the lens of a camera.” The audience may breathe a sigh of relief. While also losing interest. There is no doubt in this viewer’s mind that the safety of the competitors in “All the Sharks” was fully assured; that film editing is a marvelous, sleight-of-hand craft; and that the fish are more appealing than the humans.