The Dinosaurs

It's dark and at times all too much, but the mastery of ILM and Morgan Freeman guiding the audience through hellscapes of another era helps the series rise above its limitations.

A lot of folk who like dinosaurs know an awful lot about them, in a way that viewers who might casually tune in to a show about lemurs or dolphins probably do not. They might be frustrated by how little cutting-edge detail there is on each species and era, as the show pitches itself more towards families. The children of those families will, however, come away with a good grounding in evolution, and in what havoc can be wreaked by shifts in the climate.