The Americas: April 8
It's the Wild West, where survival demands grit and adaptability.
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“The Wild West” is tonight’s episode of The Americas.
In snowbound Yellowstone, coyotes use skill and geothermal heat to survive. In Colorado, hundreds of rattlesnakes emerge after winter, while a pregnant female risks starvation to give birth. In California, acorn woodpeckers battle for the best food storage sites, using barns and trees to secure their winter supplies. In Arizona’s desert, honeypot ants survive extreme heat by storing nectar inside their own bodies deep underground.
On the Great Plains, ageing bison face fierce rivals to win mates, while fires renew the grasslands. In Kansas, wild horses run through lightning-charged skies. On Nebraska’s Platte River, half a million sandhill cranes converge, their courtship dances creating a rare natural spectacle, now captured from above.
The Wild West remains a place of extremes, where each creature must fight to endure its challenges.
7:30pm Tuesday on Seven.
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3 Responses
Fantastic photography. Don’t mind Tom Hanks as the narrator … Sir David would still be better. And so far, it’s far too biased towards the actual USA. I suppose that is sort of understandable given that it’s a co-production between CBS & BBC. But the script is appalling, at times the script is sickening (being polite). I could only make it through part of the 1st 2 episodes. Given up on the rest.
Did u mean the hokey narration? That’s what I referred to in review, sounding BBC dumbed down for US audiences to me…
Yes. I would have to agree with you. We can just but up with, say, 98% of the script but in the end the script just gets too much and we switch off. The photography, the slow motion stuff and so on, is at times unbelievable (if I wasn’t looking at it). This would look really, really good in 4K (no idea if the show was filmed in 4K but most nature documentaries are these days).