Earthsounds (2024– ) User Reviews

Enthralling, stunning, magical documentary series

[PhilmGuru · 10/10 · 27 February 2024]

This has to be one of the greatest nature series I have ever seen. The production values are absolutely astounding - stunning, vibrant, sumptuous rich 4K HDR with incredibly well mastered Atmos audio. When we put this on our 87" OLED it feels like we are transported into the environment. The picture in places almost looks and feels 3D. What are good production values though with the content to back it up? It absolutely shines here as well - I guarantee you will see magical elements of nature you never knew about and find out new things about animals that sound like something out of a sci-fi story. You will not be bored and Hiddleston is a fantastic choice for the narration.

I have no idea why Apple aren't marketing this more. It's absolutely blown me away on every level and I desperately hope they make another season.

The only negative I will highlight is that the bitrate in some high motion scenes is just too low and the illusion is occasionally broken. This is hopefully easily fixable with a better encode, but it's really screaming out for an UltraHD Blu-ray, but sadly I don't see any chance of that ever happening.

At the end of each episode there is also a short making of, showing the crew recording on location. This is a lovely little treat at the end of each episode and I'm so glad they included it!

Nature show I can watch with kids!

[UrbanElysium · 8/10 · 27 February 2024]

Most animal/nature shows show such graphic violence of animals fighting/ bloodshed/ gore- I hate those.!! I do NOT want to watch that- I know what happens in wild!

THIS series only hints at that and just focuses on sounds of nature in many different aspects. From the animals mating calls to elemental sounds. This I love!

Well produced, very informative, amazing visuals and Tom Hiddleston's narration ( the most soothing voice!) is excellent!

I knew half of the information, other half I got educated. This is a great series for families, especially with younger kids because it doesn't show animals killing other animals.

Amazing continent-spanning nature documentary

[dfloro · 9/10 · 22 March 2024]

Anchored by the exceptional narration of Loki's Tom Hiddleston, new audio technologies and techniques are utilized by a dedicated team of wildlife biologists & other scientific researchers to document a variety of fascinating means of intraspecies (and interspecies) communication. Much (but by no means all) of this is driven by the mating season and its striking, bizarre acts to attract the opposite gender and reproduce. You'll learn and observe how crocs hear and feel the sounds of their offspring, how male spiders pluck musical vibrations on females' webbing, how male koala bears use their 2 sets of vocal chords to create bass bellows indicative of an animal 20 times their size, and the songs sung by snow leopards in order to call to one another in the treacherous mountains of the Himalayas. Each of the dozen episodes of this miniseries ends with a few minutes "Behind the Sounds," highlighting the lengths the crew go to in order to capture such never-before-heard audio (for example, the equivalent of 4 Everest climbs in 4 years so as to record the elusive snow leopard). Absolutely incredible show, and you do owe it to your entire family to experience the whole thing!