The Next Generation

This new season of Our Planet had already set itself apart in the first couple episodes from the multitudes of nature docs narrated by our infallible David Attenborough, with a fast-paced, sharper editing style, a commanding, diverse soundtrack, and a gorgeous color palette with cinematography that accentuated particularly striking landscapes. But the third episode, covering the tribulations of newborns and parents throughout the challenging fall months, managed to blow the first two out of the water! An abundance of particularly fascinating and unique animal stories fly by in a flash in this very pruned tour-de-force in what a nature documentary set to the Attenborough formula can be.