Excellent but underrated film

A Disappointing Continuation

Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.

It's easily one of the freshest, sharpest and most enjoyable films of this year.

My girlfriend and I sat after a long day on the couch perusing Netflix, and found America Unearthed looking like a good bet. After all, the subject of un-explored archaeological mysteries right here in our own collective backyard is a great hook. Who wouldn't enjoy that?Enter Scott Wolter.I know absolutely nothing about the guy, but he strikes me as an aging male model who at the height of his career enjoyed success as an A- lister modeling clothes for the men's section of the JC Penny catalog. I could respect a guy for just being that. You know, somebody who's aware of their limitations. That kind of thing. What I don't respect and am annoyed by is anybody in the entertainment business trying (badly) to pass themselves off as a genuine academic. It's akin to Jenna Jameson suddenly disappearing from the world of porn and re-emerging as a powerful party to bare on the subject of, say, Big Pharma or the current State of Israel, speaking to us through botox inflated lips and raccoon eyes. That simply doesn't work. 'America' isn't so much the story of history lost as it is Mr. Wolter desperately trying to convince us he knows what he's talking about. His so-called 'investigations' are shoddy, incoherent, and ego-oriented.In one episode alone, Wolter finds it necessary to verbally disparage and gossip about a colleague to a friend over the phone while sitting in an airport. The colleague simply didn't agree with Wolter's assessments earlier in the episode, and Wolter HAD to be on camera childishly complaining about it to someone else.How could any of that add value to the show's objective? Clearly, it doesn't and detracts from any validity Wolter might have had.I made it through three episodes. That's all I could take.The potential for this show was enormous, but Wolter's lack of any true scientific agenda and bratty personality drags it straight out of the sky and into the ground.

This has to rate in the top 10 most unscientific series in the history of television. It is an absolute crock. There is no confirmation of any of the so called facts. He presents his opinion, the one he is paid for, as fact but answers no questions that arise. For instance, the episode "A Deadly Sacrifice" he asserts that the Celts were in North America near modern day Tulsa OK and points west, proved from a carving of a bull found IN the nearby river (later in the show he states it was found on an island in the river), obviously without typical water erosion, and links it to cave carvings in Oklahoma's panhandle. If you look closely at his map linking the two "on the same waterway" you find they are not.Another episode "Great Lakes Copper Heist" he asserts Europeans came to North America to mine copper in the region of the Great Lakes with out leaving 1 single utensil, tool, or remnant of a dwelling when they vacated. It is inferred that this mining was to fuel the Bronze age. However the copper was not depleted, and always held value even after the Bronze Age. Why would they leave? The episode "Stonehenge In America" depicts a New Hampshire site with a Stonehenge like construction (it's nothing like it) linked, by Google Earth on a line from the New Hampshire site to the UK Stonehenge. The American site has a stone pointing directly at Stonehenge in a north eastern direction then on to Beirut on the Mediterranean Sea… except it is a direct line to thru the Baltic Sea. Several hundred miles north.The only value this has is laughable science and geography. Unfortunately there will be those who believe this "Bull", pun intended.

This show is some of the most unsupported dreck I've ever had the misfortune to watch. First of all, this is NOT proved history; it is basically one crackpot geologist's theories, completely unsupported by any legitimate scientific evidence. Scott Wolter is NOT an archaeologist, and relies more on conspiracy theories of "what the government doesn't want you to know" than on established field work that produces real artifacts and proof. You never see any interviews with established and renowned academic experts, and my sense is that he couldn't delineate between a real Viking sword and a Clovis point! For a channel which supposedly presents "history," this program, among others (like the Ancient Alien astronaut crowd), is irresponsible presentation of pseudo-history. At least the ancient alien crowd sometimes presents info in a tongue-in-cheek manner, and one can recognize that it's solely "what-if entertainment". This show takes itself so seriously, and Wolter is so desperate to convince us he's an "expert" rather than a rock-hound with no archaeological experience, that I can't even stand to watch his "intro trailers" anymore.

i just started watching this show because it is being made available by my satellite TV provider on a temporary basis. i was appalled by "forensic geologist" Scott Wolter. He is reckless and irresponsible. I do like most of the subjects picked for his flawed analyses because i have an interest in these anomalies myself. I reject most all of his conclusions, however. Once this POS show is no longer available for free by my satellite provider, I won't miss it, nor will I ever be induced to upgrade my TV package so that I can get it again. On the positive side, I do learn more about each of his chosen anomalies with each show, and for that I'm appreciative. I wish he'd get off of that Knights Templar obsession of his, though.