This thing was worse than my worst fears. Just awful. They had no voice, no message, no audience in mind. It does not rise to the level of hokey. An embarrassment, and worse, a wasted opportunity.
Carl Sagan was a good scientist and a great salesman. His vision, his message drove the original Cosmos. Dr. Tyson probably did as well as could be expected given the material, but he is very much a lesser epigone of Sagan. Great special effects and computer graphics in the service of a muddled and confused message. The fancy-schmatzy computer graphics added to the confusion and detracted from whatever message they thought they had. The cheesy “Also Sprach Zarathustra” Musik didn’t help, either. If you watched the first episode you know less about the cosmos than before.
Four rotten tomatoes. In case I wasn’t clear, I HATED IT.
Clearly written by Brian the dog.
The cartoons used to describe some of our best astronomers of the past was, (imo), juvenile kids stuff..! As a (former) amateur astronomer I was greatly disappointed in his presentation.
(Did you see the prelude to the show? Why it was our current commander in chief himself, BHO!)