Hellen I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much

Bardlerx Strictly average movie

SeeQuant Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

Seraherrera The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

wornstones I notice there are a few reviewers who think this series is silly and overly dramatic, and I have to agree with them. I'm not a scientist, but I do love science, and there are never enough GOOD science programs on TV, as far as I'm concerned. The History Channel is part of a conglomerate of entertainment media (not educational), and I have a feeling that the goal of this series (and most others on this channel) IS to excite and entertain AND introduce the importance of science in our lives to those people who think science doesn't affect them. It is like a high-action Sci-Fi movie, except that it's based on fact, but with a lot of special affects and dramatic dialog to attract those who think science is dull. Compared to some of the programming that PBS and Smithsonian channel puts out, this is less informative and designed for a less collegiate crowd, but if it can get a young person interested in going into a field of science and going in the direction of college, I say, "Bravo!"

the_sarpo Tastes about movies or series or music is relative, as most of us accept. But The Universe offers such lots of unique elements, explanations and examples that you feel like you have to accept the quality of this masterpiece...Even anyone with the slightest idea about what's going on in the universe can understand what these guys talking about. This is itself an enough reason to take a look at this series.A warning from someone who watched and appreciated The Universe series, you are going to get some really solid answers that you've been looking for throughout your life about our universe.If you are not some kind of a religious freak, you will see the reasonable and scientific explanations from scientists within this series and accept them. But I suggest you to stay away from The Universe if you will continue speculating your ridiculous religious dogmatics even after experiencing this masterpiece!If you watch episode 14 of the first season, Beyond the Big Bang, you'll understand what I'm trying to say. Definitely a must see!!!

leducjjr I had great hopes for this but only made it through 4 of season one's episodes before giving it the sack.The voice-over dialogue and sensationalist announcements is better suited to "Cops" TV show than a proper science programme.Understood the History Channel is competing with shows on MTV, Comedy Central, and Spike TV and this is painfully evident.Had to switch this off during the "Inner Planets" segment where Venus is referred to as Earth's "Evil Twin", the inner planets were described as "planets gone bad" and Earth's "Global Warming" conclusion is based off analysis of Venus' atmosphere... complete with hippie scientist with funky ear-ring.

fedor8 (The 10/10 rating applies to the first two seasons.) "People come together, coz we're all made of stars..." Don't be a ninny like Moby, quoting a fraction of a scientific detail you overheard from a documentary program while channel-hopping during a cocaine-induced stupor (vegan cocaine, I gather...). Watch the whole thing. Because if the hairless, tone-deaf, talentless, nepotistic little turntable bunny had listened more carefully, he would have known that we're all made of supernovas. Besides, whereas it is true that most of us are made of stars, certain NY jet-set nerds are made of sewer material which I hear is made out of dung, not stars...Astronomy and cosmology in particular have reached their Golden Age, and have been experiencing a sort of accelerated evolution, in the past decade or so, with dozens of major new discoveries. What better way to present them to science fans and utterly clueless science-illiterate masses (people like Moby and his fans) than with this slickly executed TV series. The CGI sequences are top-notch, the best scientific minds of the day have their say, the shows move at a brisk pace, and the material is sufficiently simplified so that about a fifth of all potential viewers can follow it. (A fifth: that is a LOT.) Unfortunately, the vast majority of people don't even know whether cosmology is a science or a new religious cult for Hollywood's "intelligentsia", let alone what fascinating questions, theories, and facts had been brought forward recently in this field. When one considers that various "holy books" are still top-sellers while less than 0.1% of the population has an inkling what a Big Rip is, then it's small wonder that Western Civilization has been going the way of profound dumbing-down in recent decades. Idiocracy, here we come! Madonna's latest Third-World kidnapping (sorry, adoption) is so much more interesting to the sheep than concepts such as a cosmological decade or a quasar.I would particularly recommend TU to bog-worshipers, esoterics, the astrology-obsessed, and other witch-finders, ghost-seekers, and sasqwatch-spotters. TU might widen their horizons, make them finally aware that a real world exists out there, completely oblivious about and almost entirely unrelated to the numerous fantasy worlds humans had been concocting for eons out of pure abject fear. (Cosmic insecurity is a bitch.) Nevertheless, I am also aware that only five minutes of almost any TU episode would put off these viewer demographics from watching the rest, forever. There is no cure against Dummheit.The first two seasons are a must, and should be checked out first. The very best: "Dark Matter/Dark Energy", "Life & Death Of A Star", "Cosmic Apocalypse", "The Outer Planets". Other superior episodes: "Cosmic Holes", "Alien Moons", "Saturn", "Jupiter", "Alien Planets", "Secrets of the Sun", "The Biggest Things In Space".The lesser episodes are the ones dealing with space travel/colonization. Still quite interesting, but with too many of those laughable Mickey Mouse fantasy scenarios about terra-forming of alien planets and sending faster-than-light ships to other solar systems. Humanity will never move a millimeter beyond Mars, and when I say "humanity" I mean just the dozen or so luckless urine-sniffers (astronauts) who'll probably end up leaving their bones on the "red plant". I'll sooner believe that Tim Robbins comes up with a cure for the swine flu than that a successful colony will ever be established on Mars.So what happens when a Moby particle hits an anti-Moby particle? Something wonderful.