Steven explores from Canadian to Mexican border the spine of North America: the Rocky Mountains, which also constitute the continental divide between river systems flowing West to the Pacific or east...
Stephen visits the US region most appealing to him, traditional Dixieland south of the Mason Dixie line, which he physically finds between Pennsylvania and Virginia. In the Virgianias he visits the ...
Stephen travels through the basin of Old Man River, North America's greatest, from the Great Lakes to its Gulf of Mexico delta. Stephen starts in Louisiana, visiting New Orleans, site of Mardi Gras ...
If you don't like Fry, you'll hate this. I like Fry, although he's not even on my top 20 list of British comedians. His style, for better or worse, is what makes this series different from the dozens of other travelogues out there. It's more Top Gear (the old one) than Parts Unknown. Only slightly funny but fairly informative and quite fun. It shows the weirder aspects of America, from the perspective of a foreigner who is brutally honest. At an Auburn football games he says "America is simultaneously preposterous, incredibly laughable, impressive, charming, ridiculous, expensive, overpopulated, wonderful, American." If you even slightly agree, you'll like this.
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If you don't like Fry, you'll hate this. I like Fry, although he's not even on my top 20 list of British comedians. His style, for better or worse, is what makes this series different from the dozens of other travelogues out there. It's more Top Gear (the old one) than Parts Unknown. Only slightly funny but fairly informative and quite fun. It shows the weirder aspects of America, from the perspective of a foreigner who is brutally honest. At an Auburn football games he says "America is simultaneously preposterous, incredibly laughable, impressive, charming, ridiculous, expensive, overpopulated, wonderful, American." If you even slightly agree, you'll like this.