Yes this is an excellent television show. Yes it's a gripping series. The problem with it as history is that Huntford's book was a hatchet job. Scott wasn't such a fool. The truth is far more nuanced. I urge everyone to read the wikipedia article on Scott. Scott's expedition would have been a success except for the extraordinarily bad weather of that spring. There is more in the article about recent scholarship on the decisions he made. He was neither grand hero nor blundering fool. Learn the truth. This TV series is unfortunately a hatchet job on Scott.
Review of The Last Place on Earth
