Review of Smash Lab

Smash Lab (2007– )
3/10
High hopes not fulfilled...
5 January 2008
Warning: Spoilers
We watched the first episode and hoped to see the same blend of good science with quirky experimentation that Discovery Channel has demonstrated with Mythbusters. Alas, not in this program. For one, the trailer that is promoting the show is wrong. It asks that question if a bullet proof vest can protect a building from an explosion... Well it wasn't a bullet proof vest that they tested; it was Rhino Liner. The assumptions that the team made about how best to apply the material and how to protect the windows during the final phase of the experiment were ridiculous. A simple web search would have told them that applying a blast resistant film to the window glass would have had far better results than their laughable blast shutters. It was frustrating to watch and a complete waste of time. Discovery can do much better and hopefully they will in the future. The show gets a 3-star rating only because the high speed photography of the explosions were fun to watch, otherwise it would get 0.
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