Planet Earth: Blue Planet II
IFC | WE | AMC | BBC America | SundanceTV | Release Date: January 20, 2018
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
97
METASCORE
Universal acclaim based on 7 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New YorkerTroy PattersonMar 30, 2018
Season 1 Review: The seven-episode series flexes its broadcaster’s mastery of a genre that it created. Over excellent footage shot on a circumglobal photo safari, the venerable narrator David Attenborough orates zoological narratives as if delivering a state-of-nature address. Read full review
100
The Hollywood ReporterTim GoodmanJan 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: It's a visually astonishing and riveting seven-part collection of images so surreal they almost feel like science fiction. ... Something like this doesn't happen overnight or come around very often. This is television as an educating device for the globe. Read full review
100
IndieWireHanh NguyenJan 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: Its message, and the methods it employs to deliver it, makes this the most important television on right now. Read full review
100
VarietySonia SaraiyaJan 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: Blue Planet II is jaw-dropping. ... Instead of simply exhorting the Right Thing to Do, the show strives to create the awe and interest required to not just care about the fate of the world’s oceans, but to grow to love them, too. It’s working. Read full review
100
ColliderAllison KeeneJan 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: There really cannot be enough praise for the series, which knows how important it is to engage viewers on both an emotional and intellectual level. The results are a riveting, often heartbreaking look at both the strength and fragility of the world’s oceans. Read full review
100
NewsdayVerne GayJan 17, 2018
Season 1 Review: A worthy successor to the original, Blue Planet II also brings an urgent environmental warning that the first lacked: It demonstrates that the seas are in trouble and that the world must act. Read full review
80
Vox.comEmily VanDerWerffJan 19, 2018
Season 1 Review: Blue Planet II will be one of your favorite TV events of the year, and its deep dive beneath the waves of the world’s oceans will prove both soothing and engaging. Read full review
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