Human

I think the presenter is earnest in her slow and evocative narrative, but when paired with the annoyingly slow, repetitive and overly dramatic background music, and have this repeat every few minutes, for 50 some minutes each episode, for a total of 5 episodes, everything just drags and gets boring very fast.

Dreadful. Truly dreadful. The narrative is not consistent. That is the biggest gripe. Inaccurate presentation of information is unforgivable.

At one point I thought this was a parody and had to check. Is not, apparently.

You could make three very nicely paced 20 mins pieces, that could include far more information and data, and be far more enjoyable to watch.

The host has potential, but the producer and director have done her no favours whatsoever.

It is such a shame but this is an opportunity lost.

How people have rated this 10/10?!? I can only imagine that they have been paid for or are friends and family of those involved.

A real shame :(

On several occasions I thought we were going to have to wait for the presenter to have a cry before we could move on. It is just too dramatic for me. Is a shame because it is so interesting. Was slightly put off at the beginning by the writer's basic mistake; I'm sure a lot of primary school pupils can tell you that 300 000 years isn't a third longer than 200 000.

I was curious to check out this series and ended up binge watching over 2 days. As yo be expected from the BBC production unit, the quality of the cinematography is breathtaking. The big discovery - beyond all the amazing factual content - is Ella Al-Shamahi, who as a presenter and educator, draws you into the world of complex paleontological research and discovery, without ever making you feel patronised.

Ella is a great find for the future of great science documentary making, and the story and her presentation - and utter excitement and glee in her specialist subject - is utterly infectious. A must watch.

Most series about human civilisation skip lightly over pre-history in a single epidsode. There is something welcome, therefore, about a programme that concentrates on the story of the earliest humans. Unfortunately, 'Human' just isn't very good. The visuals are spectacular, but that's because it shows us sand dunes and glaciers when talking about how humans once lived in hostile environments, rather than the less extreme places they actually lived. Much of the commentary has a vauge "feel the wonder" vibe as opposed to the more educational content of someone like Jacob Boronwoski. Most annoyingly, presenter Ella ah-Shamahi talks endless about our relatioship with "other species of human", without once defining what she means by the terms "human" and "species". She is thus particuarly unelightening when discussing interbreeding. Ultimately, what we get here is a lot of pretty pictures; but not much to truly enlighten us.