Something that could’ve been a great documentary (CGI resources, narrator, director) turned out as a popumentary lacking scientific disclaimers. The way series evolve is also quite weird as narration could’ve been much linear without going back and forth all the time. But I guess that’s the way to feed information for a commercial success of such genre.

Great music and okay CGI. My biggest issue with this series was that it keeps jumping in the timeline to draw parallels between what was and what we have now, but sometimes it feels like a poorly made connection and you're often unsure if we're seeing 'back then' or 'now'. I was also disappointed that we saw more of the modern age than we saw of prehistoric mammals or dinosaurs / marine life.

Not exactly jam-packed with information, there’s too much focus on the rise and fall of “dynasties”, too great a reliance on CGI that isn’t completely convincing (but there’s an argument to say that it’s better for viewers to be able to clearly distinguish this from actual video of wildlife), and, unlike Attenborough documentaries, the narrator never indicates that there are any unanswered questions, scientific uncertainties, unproven hypotheses, etc. Still, not a bad introduction for children.