Mysteries from Above

I see from the other reviews that this filler for some documentary channel is not fooling them either:

• Interminable over the top padding to drag out a factoid into a 15 minute long dirge, replete unnecessary speculation and over the top soundtrack
• perhaps it is a way to keep production costs down while padding out the content, but this is filled with dubious 'rent-an-expert' types overly dramatically espousing ridiculous phrases and theories. If any of them had any credibility, they'd be doing actual research or focus on proper documentaries where their faces aren't the main thing being shown.

A prime example of the freefall in quality of documentary making.

Churned out in the mold of shows like, Oak Island and the many ghost hunting time wasters, non-mysteries are milked with fake urgent setups, pumped by talking heads with irrelevant expertise and punctuated with dramatic, drum thumping, pre-commercial cliff-hanging cutaway.

The absolute worst sort of faux-documentary. They could pack an entire season of real content into a single episode.

Narrator: Why is there an airplane in the middle of a rural woodland?

PhD Chemist: Did it crash?

Professor Cute Blonde: Was it used by drug cartels?

Hunky Evolutionary Biologist: And who put it there?

The guy we all know who bought it as a home conversion decades ago.

Fark.

As someone who loves to watch documentaries, I was tricked into attempting this one. Each mysterious place requires a lengthy buildup of repetitious, rhetorical questions from a series of fake experts, followed by two or three garbage hypotheses before you're finally rewarded for your legendary patience for this BS..

My well-calibrated fast-forward finger was twitching the whole time, but to no avail. It was simply no match! The overly dramatic filibusters are impenetrable.

No matter how much you may hate yourself, it's not enough. You can't possibly finish this series. I dare you to try! If I were on life-support with this playing in the background, I would awaken to unplug my machines.

I am on my second episode and it is looking more and more like it will be my last episode. I have watched many "from above" types of shows like Europe From Above and they have been chock full of spectacular drone footage of scenery, monuments, cities, historical sites, etc cetera, and it has been wonderful to watch. This is the exact opposite of those types of programs. They instead take a few lame overhead shots then fill it with overly tedious drownings from so-called experts, whose main area of expertise seems to be wasting time. The result is a few 5 minute segments stretched out to make a 45 minute waste of time. Give this a pass.

This is yet another formulaic rehashing of Mysteries of the Abandoned using the same, dragged out reveals of things we already know explained by the same rotation of "experts" (like what the heck is a History Communicator?) filled with unnecessary filler. The overly dramatic reads (see: Andrew Gough) interspersed with terrible red herrings to stretch out easily explained "mysteries" are at least entertaining if not hilarious. Kudos to writers who use the heck out of a Thesaurus with the silly questions posed by voice over explainers whose credentials have little of nothing to do with the "secrets revealed".