Expedition X

My husband and I enjoy this show very much. The only problem is that we can never hear what Jessica and Phil hear because the music is too loud! Can we do without the music so the environmental sounds are the same that Jessica and Phil hear? It would make it so much more realistic and believable and exciting.

The biggest mystery about this program is how it ever got commissioned. Jessica is obviously as mad as a box of frogs, and will believe literally any old rubbish instead of the obvious truth. Phil is supposed to be the voice of reason, but all too often goes along with ridiculous scenarios instead of just pointing out it's a load of nonsense. Formulaic, preposterous, implausible.

I have loved Josh Gates for years and came to love Phil and Jess as well. I don't believe in much paranormal stuff but the show was entertaining. That is until Jess left. I was heartbroken and upset with Josh that he didn't make amends with her. I REALLY do not like this new woman Heather. She is so obviously fake that it just ruins the show. Whenever she does anything like the necklace Ouji board thing or the dowsing rods she is so obviously moving her fingers to manipulate them. I spend more time being distracted by her faked stuff that I cannot enjoy the entertainment factor that I had with Jess. From reading some other reviews I see I am not alone.

Josh, fix things with Jess and get rid of that fake hack Heather.

Somehow this show returned for a second season, and somehow it's even worse. This show has nothing to do with it's parent show, Expedition Unknown, where you are constantly given history and interesting facts/culture about said location from likable host Josh Gates. This show rather decides to rip off fake-ass ghost shows with every single trope those shows have, but done 10x worse and obviously more fake. I gave the show a second chance after its hiatus, and yet somehow they learned nothing from the first season and have doubled down on horribly made fake setups. The two hosts still consist of a girl most famous for licking a PSP and a guy that's an Instagram bug fanatic, both of which seem to absolutely hate eachother. The girl seems to think even the slightest cricket sound is a supernatural homunculus waiting to pounce from the underbrush, and the guy just seems to want to go home and down a glass of hard liquor to forget about the episode he just had to film. Both of them pretend to be scared of stock sound effects that they edit in post production, talk to crazy people/actors about their experiences with the creature of the week, fumble around in uninteresting dark places for 15 minutes, and then just give up after finding a prop they put on-site and calling it so-called "evidence", opting instead to call up and bother Josh to give him an "update" when it's clear he could care less and just wants to go back to sleep. It's paint-by-numbers ghost show and an incredibly boring slog to get through, and if Josh didn't appear you'd have no idea that this was connected in any way to Expedition Unknown. The only sheer amount of enjoyment I get out of watching this show is the commercial in-between where a lonely man buys his seemingly paralyzed guinea pig a new hat for Christmas whilst proceeding to take a picture of him. After that commercial is taken off the air, I will have no reason to watch this show.

If you want entertaining fake ghost shows, please for the love of god watch anything else.

Is Jessica insane?? The biologist is open minded but she just thinks everything must be supernatural, or a monster. Not open that something may have a normal explanation. Expedition Unknown with Mr Josh is my preferred tipple!