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Review: Tiny World Season 1 (2020)
Extremely adorable documentary!! I'm just coming off of the famed BBC Earth and Frozen Planet documentaries and I felt that the quality of this documentary was on par with those. Would definitely recommend this documentary for those who like nature documentaries.
Format
Like with the BBC documentaries, this documentary divided its episodes by type of environment. However, the BBC documentaries tended to be a lot more fast paced and zoomed from continent to continent which tended to confuse me. On the other hand, Tiny World tended to spend more time on fewer animals (because of its shorter runtime) so it didn't confuse me as much lol.
Production
The production value was excellent. The point of this documentary was to focus on small creatures, and I think the documentary did a great job of capturing the small things at a scale where we could see what was happening.
That being said, the scale of some of the creatures were so small that it was just sometimes not easy to grasp how small they were, because the point was to zoom in so that we could see them. Not really the fault of the production crew though, and anyway, I much appreciated being able to see the tininess.
Paul Rudd was the narrator of this documentary. Compared with the BBC documentaries, this documentary had a bit more of a humourous tone, which Paul Rudd matched. I think he also brought a bit of that "aw shucks" tone which you kind of need when you're talking about little creatures.
The background music also very much fit that cute and humourous atmosphere which I appreciated. It brought that fun wonder to this documentary. While I am normally a bit iffy about humanizing animals too much, I did find it very entertaining in this documentary.
Episodes
This season was only 6 episodes, and its episodes weren't too long, only around half an hour. So as I mentioned, it focused on fewer animals but they kind of made more of an impact.
Overall
I really enjoyed this documentary! Looking forward to the next season :3
Format
Like with the BBC documentaries, this documentary divided its episodes by type of environment. However, the BBC documentaries tended to be a lot more fast paced and zoomed from continent to continent which tended to confuse me. On the other hand, Tiny World tended to spend more time on fewer animals (because of its shorter runtime) so it didn't confuse me as much lol.
Production
The production value was excellent. The point of this documentary was to focus on small creatures, and I think the documentary did a great job of capturing the small things at a scale where we could see what was happening.
That being said, the scale of some of the creatures were so small that it was just sometimes not easy to grasp how small they were, because the point was to zoom in so that we could see them. Not really the fault of the production crew though, and anyway, I much appreciated being able to see the tininess.
Paul Rudd was the narrator of this documentary. Compared with the BBC documentaries, this documentary had a bit more of a humourous tone, which Paul Rudd matched. I think he also brought a bit of that "aw shucks" tone which you kind of need when you're talking about little creatures.
The background music also very much fit that cute and humourous atmosphere which I appreciated. It brought that fun wonder to this documentary. While I am normally a bit iffy about humanizing animals too much, I did find it very entertaining in this documentary.
Episodes
This season was only 6 episodes, and its episodes weren't too long, only around half an hour. So as I mentioned, it focused on fewer animals but they kind of made more of an impact.
Overall
I really enjoyed this documentary! Looking forward to the next season :3