What on Earth?
What on Earth?
TV-14 | 10 February 2015 (USA)

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  • Reviews
    Matrixston Wow! Such a good movie.
    WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.
    Brendon Jones It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.
    Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows
    adampadum Interesting show very thought provoking.and not everything can be easily explained
    donsmail-62848 The "what could it be" group drives me up the wall. Don't speculate! Show me what it is and explain it or say you don't know. I can handle it.
    TheMachinistSleeps ****** Contains mild spoilers about one segment of one episode that wasn't good anyway - don't worry about it ******Even after reading all of the other overwhelmingly negative reviews, I decided to give it a shot. I watched S04E14 - "Cannibals in the Ghost City". The crew here at What on Earth saw the ruins of a bunch of stone buildings in Africa somewhere, and proceeded to spin a tale from there. After some short and most likely scripted interviews with "locals", an alleged archeologist goes to visit the ruins - her mind is full of wonder as she tries to make something out of everything.She sees what appear to be defensive holes purposely crafted in to the wall. The kind of holes you'd see on the wall of a fort - firing positions or just simple peep holes: "Oh, there are holes in this wall! Almost as if they were terrified of something out there! What could have made them so frightened?!?!?"This is the reaction of an alleged archeologist seeing holes in an old stone wall. Next, she finds a single piece of coral on top of one piece of the ruined stone wall. She picks it up and says that the ruins are made out of coral, at the same time we are looking at an obviously stone wall in high definition quality. It's unmistakably a stone wall with one piece of coral on it, but she is away in her own little fantasy world.The very first possibility they raised in this "documentary" for why this bunch of stone buildings was abandoned: evil spirits. Djinn, to be precise, which are "aligned with Satan", as we're told by some other expert. Then, yet another expert tells us that we "really don't want to mess with them" in reference to these Satanic spirits. As opposed to the Satanic spirits that you really do want to mess with, I guess.Everyone in the cast is so excruciatingly credulous about everything presented to them. There are no bad ideas to be found here, apparently. Every opinion is just as valid as the next, and everything spooky or supernatural is worthy of a lengthy discussion accompanied by cheesy animations. It's a bit like listening to a young child talk about complicated issues - you just don't have the heart to tell them that's not how it works, and you also find their naivety somewhat adorable.Next possibility after evil spirits: an invading cannibal army. Our experts quickly conclude: "There is no evidence of this."What about a plague or harmful weather conditions? "These are just theories," they say without any further speculation.Yes, this is how quickly they dismissed those two possibilities, about 30 seconds each, after spending about 10 minutes discussing whether Satanic spirits drove out the inhabitants.And that's the end of that whole segment on the stone ruins in Africa. It probably wasn't a plague or weather conditions, and there's no evidence of a cannibal army, but we're keeping an open mind about those evil spirits (although we're still not going to mess with them). There are no other possibilities mentioned. No facts are presented after all of this build-up. Moving on to some other nonsense now with just over half an hour left... but they're moving on without me. I couldn't finish one episode.My recommendation: avoid this series like it's a plague of Satanic cannibals in a blizzard.
    Joseph Pelatohri Here's the formula for this show:1. Search high and low for any sort of satellite image that can possibly be presented in an anomalous context.2. Omit key information / observations / facts, while using the narrator to mislead the viewers / present said "anomaly" as something extraordinary (e.g. aliens, government secrets, the end of the world).3. Present several (typically idiotic / ludicrous) possibilities (to eat up time), and then proceed to discredit said idiotic / ludicrous possibilities (e.g. Narrator's Voice (hyperbole): "A satellite caught glimpse of a giant pink blob in the sky over the Pacific Ocean, which has experts baffled. Some have suggested it could be a giant herd of pigs. This would certainly explain the pink appearance, but upon further inspection, seems unlikely as pigs aren't known to fly. Further, the blob covers an area of 100,000 square miles. If it is a herd of flying pigs, it would consist of more pigs than are known to exist in the observable universe").4. Present all the (initially omitted) facts / details, revealing the anomaly's true, (underwhelming) identity (e.g. Narrator's Voice: "When orbiting the earth, a satellite witnesses a sunset and sunrise every 90 minutes. At the time the anomalous satellite image was taken, the sun just so happened to be setting behind the Earth, resulting in a spectacular sunset, which manifests itself as a (wait for it)… pink… blob…").There might be one legitimate / actually interesting case presented every couple of episodes. Aside from that, it's just a bunch of lazy / manufactured, (often) downright idiotic filler content… Then again, I suppose that's pretty much all television these days