History for those who can add 2+2 together, and get 22 every time!

Lammasuswatch

As I persisted with the interminable episodes of what turned out to be the first series of this tripe, I marvelled how the makers could possibly pad it out to 8 episodes. And when I finally got to the 8th episode, I looked up imdb, and found there were another two series of it!!

The show is little short of amazing. Mainly at the ability of the team of "investigators" and ex-navy seals (or whatever) led by ex-CIA man Bob Baer to come up with hypotheses out of dubious initial evidence, and arrange expensive trips for the teams to places across various continents, visiting Berlin, Argentina, Spain, the Canary Islands and so on. Wherever they end up they obtain side-scan sonar, ground-penetrating radar and other expensive equipment, and then somehow always manage to time their efforts to have them need to end prematurely - because it's "too late in the year" (with weather conditions deteriorating), or "too late in the day" (with light fading), or "they only have official permission" to be there one afternoon. And so on.

And then the attempt is just abandoned. (Just in time too! Before any real evidence is actually found to scotch whatever it is they're trying to find or prove in that particular sequence. And I am profoundly disturbed that any of these people could ever have worked for law enforcement, journalism or any intelligence services too.)

Yet each subsequent failure to prove anything much at all just adds to their ever-increasing conviction in each mini-hypothesis, and thus the grand theory of life, the universe and everything. To objective viewers absolutely no connection to credible evidence linking Hitler with any of these places is ever established. But to the makers and actors (you can only call them that) of this series, it's always incontrovertible proof and it just encourages them to go on.

Which apparently they do after this series, for another 16 episodes! (Without me, though. I couldn't "Baer" to watch any more of it!)

What will this show prove to the viewer? Nothing much about Hitler.

But you will gain a lot of insight into the psychology of how elements of the CIA and the Bush Administration could manage to psyche themselves into being convinced that Saddam Hussein was building an arsenal of WMDs before the Iraq War, and then to want to convince the public of this. Or real insight into just what a crock the so-called "History Channel" is!

score 2/10

Lammasuswatch 22 April 2019

Reprint: https://www.imdb.com/review/rw4795685/