Secrets in the Ice

I'm enjoying this series. It's something a bit different, plus I find ice endlessly fascinating! Some other reviewers seem to find the variety of possible theories given, annoying, but I don't mind this at all. It teaches you other facts about different cultures, geography, geology etc. The only thing that really annoys me, is the narrator's voice!

I mean... The foundation of the content is interesting stuff. I can't knock it, but the cuts to the experts are just ridiculous. So blank and lacking any enthusiasm for the subject. It's so obvious they're just reading from a script to the side of the camera, it detracts from the quality of the program.

Somebody needs to stop hurting Jeff for these narration roles too. He just isn't appealing or pleasant to listen to.

Sorry, Jeff.

Some of this subject matter is really interesting, but this format of getting 'experts' reading scripts with zero conviction is painful. I'm looking at you Abandoned Engineering.

It's so obvious that they're reading a script they read two minutes ago.

Nothing is as annoying as the voice over though. The exaggerated intonation is beyond annoying.

The stuff is interesting enough on its own, you don't need to deliver the voice over like a 1920s fairground huckster.

Please please please fire this ham and get someone with some delivery skills.

In conclusion.

Lose the faux experts and get another voice over.

They present the stories as a guessing game of sorts and posit some ridiculous theories before actually explaining what the actual facts are. They should just present the stories forthright.and add additional context and background instead of chewing up time with nonsense. The content is interesting enough but the presentation is awful.

Random "experts" weigh in with stilted reading of some terribly written pseudo exposition. It is written at about a grade 6 level and delivered woodenly by these people who couldn't act or voice-over a commercial for ass cream.

This is the exact same formula used by a multitude of shows like this in regular rotation on the History Channel, Cottage Life as infinitum. The only saving grace is the fact Andrew Gough hasn't popped his smarmy head up yet. And a fair bit of the topics really have nothing to do with ice or anything frozen in it. So once again, stretched out and overly dramatic topics explained by the world's worst actors.