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"Cities of the Underworld" (2007): Season 2: Episode 8 -- From Abraham to Nostradamus, the ancient world was shaped by people who believed they foresaw the will of God.  Some say their fiery prophecies will come true in our lifetime - and Jerusalem is at the heart of it all.
"Cities of the Underworld" (2007): Season 2: Episode 7 -- Chicago was once a playground for mobsters and corrupt politicians, and it wouldn't be the third largest city in the US today if it weren't for the shady dealings that went on just beneath its streets.
"Cities of the Underworld" (2007): Season 2: Episode 6 -- Before the mysterious disappearance of the ancient Maya, Belize was the nerve center of this advanced civilization. Hundreds of ruins dot the landscape and reveal clues to bloody Mayan rituals and advanced architecture.
"Cities of the Underworld" (2007): Season 2: Episode 4 -- Dublin, Ireland is much more than pubs and pints. Pagan burial tombs, subterranean defense tunnels, and mysterious burial crypts line the underground below the rolling hills.

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Seasons:
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Release Date:
16 April 2007 (USA) more
Genre:
Documentary | History
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DVD Playhouse--March 2009
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 10 March 2009, 11:25 PM, PDT)

User Comments:
Interesting content, but marred by inane commentary and presenting more

Cast

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Don Wildman ... Himself - Host / ... (31 episodes, 2007-2009)
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Additional Details

Runtime:
43 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color

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Who is Don Wildman and what happened to Eric Geller?
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45 out of 60 people found the following comment useful:-
Interesting content, but marred by inane commentary and presenting, 15 September 2007
5/10
Author: antony-1 from UK

Getting a chance to see underneath some of the world's greatest cities is quite a treat. The shows find everything from mass graves to war bunkers to breweries, and the show gives an interesting insight into things that normally go unseen.

However, the show is difficult to watch due to the narration and the host.

The narrator keeps on labouring certain points over and over again. We know the premise of the show... underground places that aren't common knowledge. However she keeps on making this point. We see something under a train station, and she'll comment about how those in the train station don't know what's going on. Then she repeats this for every location, continually making reference to the people above being oblivious (the host also makes reference to this point a lot). Conversely she says at one point, while under Paris, that's you'd forget that 2 million people are above. Erm, why? We're under Paris and that's the entire point of the episode. Oh, I forget, we're trying to sound mysterious! When water drops from the ceiling, the host makes reference to 21st water dropping down to the 13th century.

Which leads me into Eric Geller, the host, has a similar style of trying to inflate everything. We see some walls made of bones, which themselves are enough to have an impact on the viewer at home without saying much. However we have to have Geller screaming about wildly. "There's bones!" Yes we know. "So many bones!" Yes, we get it. "LOTS of bones!" Be quiet now.

The show could be better if they stuck to the subject content without all the hyperbole. But it feels as if they are worried viewers will get bored, and the only way to keep them involved is by keep on repeating themselves rather loudly.

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