H2O: The Molecule That Made Us (2020) User Reviews

Interesting topic but the narrator is terrible

[ladydoodlebop · 7/10 · 7 July 2022]

This was hard to listen to with such a terrible narrator. Luckily it's an important topic and an important topic.

Water is such an important topic and this series shows this from many angles.

Still - I wish they'd chosen a narrator that was less grating to listen to.

Absolutely Brilliant!

[Beerdude · 10/10 · 23 April 2020]

More later but this is a must see. A wholistic view of the water cycle. Yes I am a water scientist. Enjoy and share. This is PBS at it's best.

Must view doc..

[travis-988-242257 · 10/10 · 24 August 2020]

Begins scientifically interesting and ends downright scary. This is a worldwide, non-political look at what is the largest looming threat to civilization; water shortage.

I wish more documentaries were like this one

[ray-01944 · 10/10 · 7 May 2020]

Regardless of the beautiful content, I hope all documentary filmmakers will take a cue from this series and STOP using "fuzzy" subtitles. With the viewing experience in mind, these producers chose to place white lettering in shaded boxes, making them ALWAYS legible. Thank you, thank you!

Not bad, but the narration is just wrong

[stuforsyth32 · 2/10 · 25 August 2021]

Visuals: check Script: check Story: oh we forgot Narrator: we picked the cheapest option

A huge potential, let down by the generic American (Netflix style) female narrator. If someone interesting was presenting this it would be brilliant.

Awful, patronising, basic.

[olympicadam · 1/10 · 25 August 2021]

I submitted this as feedback to our broadcaster in the UK (to whom we MUST pay a fee each year) so here you are:

A show about the origins of the elixir of life... with an awful, patronising narrator. It seems like you have spent some of my contribution to the BBC on importing this drivel from PBS. The first 10 minutes, I learned that water is a molecule, and it might be one of the most important molecules. Right, thanks. She mentioned this was in the style of a podcast, it's worse. Some have a face for radio (or podcasts), she has a voice, and a manner, for silence. This is BBC Four, not primary four. Water can make things grow in a desert. Knowledge like that is a good use of the money I paid to you. Maybe this is someone's school project, or one of the unpaid interns you have working for you made it, but please check what you're spending my money on. This is absolutely awful. Thought I might have learned something, but no. I knew already that trees need water.

Beautiful Film but little else

[pat_slade · 2/10 · 13 September 2021]

Oh dear, I tried to watch this but found the narrator very difficult to understand.

The script was rather basic and I learned little.

A good concept and some beautiful filming, let down by a bland simplistic script and a narrator with a strange childish diction.

I could not watch more than the first fifteen minutes of the first episode. The choice of narrator ruined it for my family. A wasted opportunity and I hope the BBC didn't spend too much of our licence fee on it!

Boring

[drjgardner · 2/10 · 15 May 2020]

This is obviously an important topic, but could you present it better? Unbelievably dull. I tried to watch it 3 times because it's obvious how important the work is, but I fell asleep each time. Tried to enlist my wife. She dropped off too.

Good for the not very bright

[alan-04700 · 1/10 · 26 August 2021]

Really terrible waste of money. Low grade American product. Why did the BBC waste money on this. The BBC can make good documentaries - why buy rubbish from the USA?

Visually Impressive - but ultimately a somewhat preachy environmental lecture

[lillywhite-94671 · 3/10 · 15 September 2021]

As a science graduate I expected more from this highly publicised series.

I wanted to learn more about water on a molecular level - For a relatively simple molecule the physical chemistry is on a par with that of DNA. Hydrogen Bonding, Van der waals forces and it's solvent properties are worthy of a programme in itself.

This is an average geography / geology lesson, that doesn't cover even the basic principles of "The Water Cycle".

When you realise it's written and narrated by a journalist rather than a scientist - It becomes essentially an extended news item with a bias towards environmentalism.