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4-Part Docuseries – Alien Worlds

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Applying the laws of life on Earth to the rest of the galaxy, this series blends science fact and fiction to imagine alien life on other planets.
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Brad Newsome Sydney Morning Herald 12/17/2020
You'll be hooked from the moment you see the flocks of scary tick-like alien predators that float through the air with balloons full of hydrogen gas produced by symbiotic microbes. Marvellous. Go to Full Review
Dan Gentile San Francisco Chronicle 12/15/2020
Half of each 40-minute episode is nice and educational and does not really demand your full attention ... then the sci-fi section pulls you back. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager The Daily Beast 12/03/2020
Though the series has a habit of replaying some of its more elaborate CGI sequences, its rigid focus on the intertwined nature of nature remains diligent, and lends credence to its more eccentric ideas. Go to Full Review
William Tucker But Why Tho? A Geek Community 01/22/2023
8/10
Alien Worlds is a stunning documentary series that is a fusion between Planet Earth and Cosmos. It is truly a show that could only have been created in the Space Age. Go to Full Review
Daniel Hart Ready Steady Cut 12/03/2020
3.5/5
If you are curious about the Universe, then Alien Worlds is not a groundbreaking documentary series, but it does give snippets of insight into the scientific view of known exoplanets. Go to Full Review
Joel Keller Decider 12/03/2020
Our recommendation of Alien Worlds basically hinges on its earthbound segments and how well-done they are. Its exoplanet segments are a mixed bag. Go to Full Review
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The U @RT55005360 12/03/2022 With what is without doubt a great idea for a series has turned into a failure, spending very little time focusing on alien animals and spending too much time on earth, what should be a fun and creative series has instead poured out a boring excuse of a show See more ArtystaPisarz P @ArtystaPisarz 03/14/2021 I confess, I had pretty high hopes when I found out about this show. You see, I am pretty interested in accurate world-building and the principles that it is based on, so I hoped to gain some original, deeply grounded insight on that matter from the perspective of details from actual science. What I got instead was science-fiction speculation based only loosely on the knowledge of the researchers involved. Do not get me wrong – world-building ideas are still there, but non of them revolutionary, nothing that, let us say, the team behind Cameron's "Avatar" did not do years before. So "Alien Worlds" can be seen as engaging, but, in my opinion, falls flat of the scope of its ambitions – or at least of what it could be. CGI is very fine and all, but it could have been complemented by narration that could have been much more thought-trough. See more 02/07/2021 Ha ha that was dumb just mindless See more spencer p @s_plewe 01/10/2021 A speculative alien-nature-doc is the best way to describe this, though it feels like it doesn't have enough footage of these fascinating extra terrestrial life forms and too much humans repeating basic science knowledge. See more 12/13/2020 The Good: you can fall asleep to it with the volume low. The Bad: repeats the same CGI 97 times an episode and you spend more time on earth than any Alien world. See more 12/12/2020 The show is intermittently fascinating when it visits alien planets. But we learn very little about the alien life and the show spends little time on them. Almost all of the time is spent giving us information about Earth instead, and very little of this information is relevant to the alien life it is supposed to help explain. See more Read all reviews
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Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Dec 2, 2020 Atlas On exoplanet Atlas, dense gravity creates a thick atmosphere allowing airborne life forms to thrive, but also providing a lesson in adaptability. Details Episode 2 Aired Dec 2, 2020 Janus Ants, scorpions and fireflies provide clues for biologists to conjecture about life on exoplanet Janus, including adaptable pentapods. Details Episode 3 Aired Dec 2, 2020 Eden Twin stars create an oxygen-rich atmosphere on Eden, where teeming biospheres may parallel seasonal cycles of predation and reproduction on Earth. Details Episode 4 Aired Dec 2, 2020 Terra A hyper-advanced species makes its home on the doomed planet of Terra, which orbits an aging star; now the species must colonize another world, using robots. Details
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Season Info

Director
Daniel M. Smith, Suzy Boyles, Tim Lambert, Nigel Paterson, Ben Wilson
Executive Producer
Tim Lambert, Jeremy Dear
Network
Netflix
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Documentary, Special Interest, Sci-Fi
Original Language
British English
Release Date
Dec 2, 2020
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