Critic Reviews

Frozen Planet is one of those instantly riveting series where you marvel at the beauty and majesty of it all but also spare more than a passing thought for the effort involved.

Stunning, beautiful, hypnotic, engrossing, spectacular... That oughta do it here as well, except Frozen Planet unexpectedly adds another word: Unprecedented.

This is high-definition bliss.

Frozen Planet [is] perhaps the single greatest accomplishment in nature TV history.

A gorgeous new documentary series on the Discovery Channel.

It joins "Planet Earth" and "Life" to reign as a triumvirate in Best Buy showrooms. Nothing looks better, sounds better.

It's mesmerizing. [26 Mar 2012, p.44]

The stunningly shot result will make you wonder at the cruel beauty of nature. [16 Mar 2012, p.67]

An endlessly fascinating seven-part foray into the most remote and unforgiving regions of the Arctic and Antarctic.

Granted, parts of the series feel like a rehash of "March of the Penguins," but there's enough jaw-dropping footage in this seven-part undertaking--including one installment devoted strictly to how the footage was captured--that nobody with even vague interest in the subject matter should be left feeling cold.