Series Details & Credits
| PBS | Release Date: September 17, 2025 |
Summary:
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi hosts the five-part documentary series about how our species, homo sapiens, became the dominant and sole human species on Earth today.
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC Two on 14 Jul 2025 and in the US as a part of PBS's Nova series on 17 Sep 2025]
[Premiered originally in the UK on BBC Two on 14 Jul 2025 and in the US as a part of PBS's Nova series on 17 Sep 2025]
Genre(s):
Movie/Mini-Series, Documentary, Science
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Positive:
4
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
The Guardian
Sep 16, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Much of the series will be revelatory. .... Ms. Al-Shamahi maintains a kind of breathlessness throughout, an air of earnest astonishment, which becomes a bit repetitive. Her apparent fear is that we viewers need to be reminded of, and impressed by, how remarkable so much of the human past has been. We probably do. .... Detective work of a very advanced order and, “Human” makes it accessible.
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Sep 17, 2025
Sep 16, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Recreations of prehistoric life are happily kept to a minimum, and made suitably blurry and distant. The fun of the show is in the present world — it is fun, and quite beautifully filmed. .... Her [Ella Al-Shamahi] excitement is not so much contagious as it is seductive.
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Air Date: September 17, 2025
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