Because too much excitement is prohibited for us the senile loons, we are left with a few options (see the "Young Pope" review), NG is among them. "The Origins" is a brilliant concept, which is pitifully executed. The series are scientifically shallow and jingoistic politically; all human progress since antiquity is attributed to the Americans. In a politically correct fashion, even the plate
tectonics (discovered by A. Wegener, a German) is credited to an obscure American geologist who shamed that "frenchy" Cousteau.
In the late Stalin's USSR (Lysenko's era), all scientific and technical advancement has to be attributed to a proper Russian scientist or engineer. While America's claim to all inventions is more well-founded, it is false and jingoistic nonetheless.
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