The Americas
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Feb 23, 2025
Metascore
61

Generally favorable reviews - based on 5 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
  3. Negative: 0 out of 5

Critic Reviews

  1. The Guardian
    Reviewed by: Rebecca Nicholson
    Mar 3, 2025
    60
    Choosing Hanks as narrator positions it in a cosy corner, and he delivers on that. It would be churlish not to be awed by the footage, which is amazing in the truest sense of the word. .... But it is becoming less and less easy to sit back and enjoy the show when that show is wearing blinkers and sticking its fingers in its ears. Even if it is humming a pretty tune.
  2. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Daniel Fienberg
    Feb 24, 2025
    60
    The Americas is as safe and conventionalized a portrait of our wild world as you could ever hope to see, accompanied by the safe and conventionalized musings of pervasive narrator Tom Hanks.
  3. RogerEbert.com
    Reviewed by: Brian Tallerico
    Feb 20, 2025
    50
    The result is an objectively beautiful series filled with awe-inspiring landscapes and handsomely depicted wildlife whose existence is flattened by a repetitive approach.