Nostradamus: End of Days

I 'm a big Nostradamus fan but this has too much supposition, drama and repetition. Had the producers focused on his writings and the various academic interpretations, they would have garnered a larger audience. Not everyone agrees on how to decode the meaning of his writings. So why not include those so viewers can make up their own mind. Maybe include other clairvoyants and their predictions especially those of Edgar Cayce. Let's not forget why Nostradamus stayed under the radar which forced him to write in code. That precludes making public his special gift to those who would persecute him.

This is so hard to watch, basic story follows a man from 500 years ago that wrote down some riddles, sure there may be the coincidental happenings in the real world, but there is nothing to suggest that Nostradamus wrote of these events.

He wasn't a prophet. He says so himself, so why watch these doom and gloom wanna-be presenters that claim they know what these quatrains meant?

Nostradamus was clearly very well educated and there is that outside chance that he was a prophet, but there is nothing in his quatrains that suggests anything near what this show is claiming.

I was looking forward to this, especially since they're factoring in stuff from the recently discovered "Lost Book of Nostradamus" (there's only been one show on that a few years ago, which didn't go over many of the drawings). But this series is scientifically sloppy and ignorant, making absurd statements - such as one volcanic eruption being able to trigger a whole series of other volcanoes along the ring of fire (no, every volcano is totally individualistic), or that a Kilauea eruption would effect California (oh please, Kilauea eruptions barely effect the city of Hilo on the same island; also Kilauea magma is runny not highly explosive). This series is full of breath-taking poorly reasoned claims and seems more interested in being sensational than being intelligent. I also don't like the Nostradamus experts they have, except for Victor Baines. They're too much from the woo-woo brigade. This is disappointing because I know there are intelligent Nostradamus researchers out there who can explain how they arrive at their conclusions instead of just making grand declarations. For instance, why they think that "New City" is generally considered to refer to the US (what? I thought everyone considered that to be New York City - but no context or reasoning is given). They all think they know *just* what Nostradamus was thinking, and almost never give us reasoning how they got there. I'm still watching this for the very few of Nostradamus' quatrains and very few drawings from the "Lost Book of Nostradamus" they do refer to. But I have to put up with a lot of sensationalistic crap to get at these few interesting scraps.

Lots of hooey and poorly researched information. And, for the love of all that is holy...we might be a fly over state, but it's pronounced MAD-rid, not ma-DRID. It's Missouri - not Spain.

My husband was watching episode 2 & as I walked through the room them say "it's a beautiful morning here in St. Louis". However, when I looked at the screen I saw a shot of the North Market, which is actually located in downtown Columbus, Ohio & has been since 1876. If you misrepresent something like that, it makes me question the accuracy of everything in the program.