Ithe was sorely disappointed in this series. I had expected that because Stephen Hawking was associated with it, it would be his take on the latest discoveries in physics and cosmology. Instead, it taught very basic information in a patronizing way, leaving me wondering if it was perhaps aimed at elementary school children. And it was patronizing ight from the introduction, where Hawking says he wanted to let "ordinary" people discover important principles of the universe. Excuse me.... "ordinary"? How does he define that? When one episode showed the group of "ordinary" people being presented with a racecar on a track, I thought, "Doppler red shift." And indeed, the big "discovery" these people made, the Doppler effect, took quite a bit of time on the show and was something I had learned about back when I took basic astronomy in college in **** fact, I'm hard-pressed to think of one thing this show presented that I haven't already heard elsewhere. If this series was intended to spark a fascination with physics and astronomy, all I can say is Carl Sagan's "Cosmos" did it a LOT better, and without treating adults like idiots. I don't often doze off during a science show, but this one is a great fix for insomnia.