APPLE TV’S PREHISTORIC PLANET LOOKS SO GOOD IT FEELS LIKE A REAL NATURE DOCUMENTARY
From the moment the first Tyrannosaurus swam onto the screen in
Prehistoric Planet
I’m a science editor taking a serious look at this nature show
Prehistoric Planet
is Apple’s attempt at answering the question
what if we made
Planet Earth
but
66 million years ago?
The result is shockingly good-looking, especially since the producers have not,
In fact, managed to invent time travel, nor have they pulled a
Jurassic Park
and brought dinosaurs back to life.
It’s a whole lot of movie magic that makes the five-episode series actually seem like a nature documentary,
soaring the skies, or stalking through forests since the end of the Cretaceous period
some heads looked animatronic, and some of the herds had a decidedly animated feel.
This kind of leap forward in dino-realism was last achieved 29 years ago when the first
Jurassic Park
movie came out.
It portrayed dinosaurs as science at the time understood them and inspired a generation of paleontologists.