History 101

If you aint American this is gonna make you laugh. I wached all episodes and cringed a lot in every one of them, but kept watching because it was just funny to see what will these muricans do next

The series addresses some interesting topics, providing statistics in a visually appealing way and providing chronological views. But occasionally strays towards giving opinions, which isn't really what 'history' is about. The episodes are a good length in providing quick overviews.

First thing is the execution bad for your typical info feeding series? No. The show's host and flow are on par with anything you'd expect from the History or Discovery channel. However half the show's episode topics are very clearly selected topics to educate you on the show creator's biases. This includes feminism, plastics, nuclear energy, oil, and China. The China episode almost plays out like a love letter to China. They even go out of their way to jab at the USA's "messy Democracy." The nuclear power episode reaches out to make you fear nuclear fission but praises nuclear fusion. What they leave out is nuclear fusion requires so much energy it is not self sustaining like fission. The plastics episode jams it down our throats once again that plastics are evil. This is clearly history with a political agenda. If you're into these topics I say watch it. If you're tired of hearing someones political bias spun as fact skip it.

A rather toothless, gentle, editorial doco series. And ahhh...the metric system? Over 90% of the world use it. Why doesnt this series?

Everyone complaining it's American made is funny considering it's actually made in Britain, but has American narration. Also, of course all the negative reviews are complaining it's liberal, but I didn't find it to be biased. It's not the best, but I think it's aimed at younger viewers as most adults will watch similar shows on channels like History or Discovery.