Though the content of this series is of interest, the production is clearly amateur hour. Each hour episode presents stories of about 5 different mysterious places, usually islands. Unfortunately, rather than being presented by a single subject matter expert, each story is presented by a crew of the same random people with vague titles like "historian" that are clearly just reading a script. I don't know if they have each of the approximately 5 presenters read the entire script then cut and edit them together into each story, of if each person just reads a few lines, but the resulting production looks very amaterish.
Many presenters have the annoying habit of talking with their hands, and none know how to make eye contact with the camera - they are all looking off to the side. Who exactly are they telling their story to? They aren't being interviewed by someone off camera, which would justify the side glances, they are just reading a script.
Since these presenters aren't subject matter experts in the stories they are reporting, they'll also frequently mispronounce words, usually locations, or technical terms. It's as if they just get sat down cold before a TelePrompTer to record their lines a single time, and even the crew doesn't know or care when they make a mistake. So a word mispronounced by one presenter is usually pronounced differently, and correctly, by the others.
The production would be greatly improved by presenting each segment using someone that has actually researched the subject and who knows how to make eye contact when telling the story.
Many presenters have the annoying habit of talking with their hands, and none know how to make eye contact with the camera - they are all looking off to the side. Who exactly are they telling their story to? They aren't being interviewed by someone off camera, which would justify the side glances, they are just reading a script.
Since these presenters aren't subject matter experts in the stories they are reporting, they'll also frequently mispronounce words, usually locations, or technical terms. It's as if they just get sat down cold before a TelePrompTer to record their lines a single time, and even the crew doesn't know or care when they make a mistake. So a word mispronounced by one presenter is usually pronounced differently, and correctly, by the others.
The production would be greatly improved by presenting each segment using someone that has actually researched the subject and who knows how to make eye contact when telling the story.