History 101

The series addresses some interesting topics, providing statistics in a visually appealing way and providing chronological views. But occasionally strays towards giving opinions, which isn't really what 'history' is about. The episodes are a good length in providing quick overviews.

First thing is the execution bad for your typical info feeding series? No. The show's host and flow are on par with anything you'd expect from the History or Discovery channel. However half the show's episode topics are very clearly selected topics to educate you on the show creator's biases. This includes feminism, plastics, nuclear energy, oil, and China. The China episode almost plays out like a love letter to China. They even go out of their way to jab at the USA's "messy Democracy." The nuclear power episode reaches out to make you fear nuclear fission but praises nuclear fusion. What they leave out is nuclear fusion requires so much energy it is not self sustaining like fission. The plastics episode jams it down our throats once again that plastics are evil. This is clearly history with a political agenda. If you're into these topics I say watch it. If you're tired of hearing someones political bias spun as fact skip it.

A rather toothless, gentle, editorial doco series. And ahhh...the metric system? Over 90% of the world use it. Why doesnt this series?

First of all, 20 minutes is very little time for a documentary.

When I was a student at university, I always watched at least one documentary or documentary series after I came home. I haven't watched in a long time. I missed this.

This documentary is my style. I was even intrigued when I saw his name on Netflix.

The topics are well chosen. Like I said, 20 minutes is too little. I would prefer 1 hour. A documentary between "6" and "7" point in my opinion. It's not very good, but I don't think it's bad either. Even in a subject that does not interest me, it is not boring. These are my thoughts. But that's my opinion based on the first season. That's for sure, I'll be watching this series until it's over. Interesting. There are a few things I don't like. In particular, most of the things are told in America's perspective or American standards. Metric system, temperature system used in Americ, but not in Europe or the other continents. This is a little frustrating.

Listen... it's called "History 101." It's short; to-the-point; and things are "Crayola-ed out" for the viewer. Yes, it's written and portrayed very much in favor of America. But... have you met us? We're all about ourselves. We are selfish, narcissistic, Americans... In school, we never made it past the first World War because we always spent so much time on the damn Civil War. This has always frustrated me personally, so this was kind of nice to be able to see a 22-minute version of the Space Race; or a 22-minute version of Middle Eastern conflict and oil. Are you going to learn some stuff? Yes. Is it going to get you somewhere in life? Probably not. But if you've ever looked up the Statue of Liberty in Wikipedia and fallen down a rabbit hole and ended up reading about the PGA (it's possible!), then maybe this little docuseries is for you. And, if feminism pisses you off, watch something else. There's probably a procedural cop show out there waiting for you.