Pretty Good

hyped garbage

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

I found this show to be very interesting. However, the host is quite repetitive, and I would have liked to see more EXPERT commentary. He often spouts off vague explanations and seems unsure if we are looking at a cemetery/hippodrome tunnel/ royal courtyard/ lavatory. you get the idea. I also have a penchant for dark spaces so I really feel at home watching this show. However I feel like they could have spoken more about the creatures that live down there, since they are obviously not abandoned. If you pause at 3:40 in the Instanbul video you will see traces of scat. I would have enjoyed it if the narrator had identified the scat and given more insight into what animals live down there (cats). Overall, the imagery makes the show interesting enough to keep me watching. would bump up rating to 8 with more cats.7.5/10

I stumbled over "Cities of the Underworld" while browsing around on Youtube and I was hooked right from the beginning. What a great show this is. Both hosts in my opinion do a really great job by doing their spelunking trips with a lot of fervor and enthusiasm and you can tell the people they talk to are getting excited as well, so their enthusiasm seems to be quite contagious. Some of the scenes are a tad over the top ("We are the first ones going down here, so we do not know what we will see" or the one in Berlin where the host enters for the first time a bunker on his own), but so what, no damage has ever been done by some showmanship. I myself have been in some of the described caves and underground structures and from the few I have seen I have to say that the description given by the host is usually very accurate and reliable; so while it is mainly good fun to watch the show, you might actually learn something from these shows. I can fully recommend this show and I can only express my misery of having not been asked to do this show. I would have done it for free :)

I love the show, and I normally don't comment but I feel the need to speak up. Eric Geller did an excellent job as the host. A major part of the reason I watched the show, was due to his enthusiasm. Yes, there was a certain amount of reiteration, but this is done for the slower members of the viewing audience. His zest and obvious interest is what he is doing, is so lacking from some shows out there. When the host is obviously bored by the topic, and isn't having fun, the viewers won't have fun. I read a rumor that the History channel has renewed for another season. I hope they bring Eric back, and allow him to continue to have fun with the show and share his joy in the topic.

Getting a chance to see underneath some of the world's greatest cities is quite a treat. The shows find everything from mass graves to war bunkers to breweries, and the show gives an interesting insight into things that normally go unseen.However, the show is difficult to watch due to the narration and the host.The narrator keeps on labouring certain points over and over again. We know the premise of the show... underground places that aren't common knowledge. However she keeps on making this point. We see something under a train station, and she'll comment about how those in the train station don't know what's going on. Then she repeats this for every location, continually making reference to the people above being oblivious (the host also makes reference to this point a lot). Conversely she says at one point, while under Paris, that's you'd forget that 2 million people are above. Erm, why? We're under Paris and that's the entire point of the episode. Oh, I forget, we're trying to sound mysterious! When water drops from the ceiling, the host makes reference to 21st water dropping down to the 13th century.Which leads me into Eric Geller, the host, has a similar style of trying to inflate everything. We see some walls made of bones, which themselves are enough to have an impact on the viewer at home without saying much. However we have to have Geller screaming about wildly. "There's bones!" Yes we know. "So many bones!" Yes, we get it. "LOTS of bones!" Be quiet now.The show could be better if they stuck to the subject content without all the hyperbole. But it feels as if they are worried viewers will get bored, and the only way to keep them involved is by keep on repeating themselves rather loudly.