Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Overrated

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Cosmos released in 1980 and it is stlll relevant today. I watched this after watching the remake by Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Cosmos: A Space Odyssey. This is the giant, like Isaac Newton on whose shoulder future Science Documentary TV Series can stand. Each and every episode is so enlightening. I watched it in 2018 and I am amazed by the things I learnedThe 21st century generation will be missing out if they skip this one. This was the time of transition and Carl Sagan set it by popularizing science and reaching it to the public. The scientific jargon is minimal and can be understood by the layman. Now i want to read the book.

1980 was a tumultuous year for me. I was 22 years old trying to prove myself in a competitive field, working lots of hours. I believe Cosmos originally aired on Monday nights on public TV, and I made sure I got home in time to see each episode. I turned out the lights and devoted my entire attention to the program. No pause buttons then, no streaming, and on public TV - no commercial breaks.The hypnotic voice of Carl Sagan takes us on a voyage totally beyond anyone's experience at the time, and fascinating because it's not science fiction, it's real. This program is so good that almost 38 years later it's still relevant.The DVD edition has a few updates but the original program is intact within, missing only that KCET station bumper that always gave me a chill because for the next hour, I knew I was going to be on a brain massage.Neil DeGrasse Tyson's 2014 redux of Cosmos stands on its own and its HD effects are far superior to the 1980 program made for broadcast television. I've watched it repeatedly as well, but the original is magic. I'm starting it over again with part one.We are made of star stuff. One does not need to believe in God, or be an athiest, or be anywhere between to appreciate what Carl Sagan presented to the world during one of its most dangerous years. Star stuff.

I was initially a skeptic coming into this series. Let me set the scene for ya: I was scrolling through the top TV show list on IMDB one day while looking for a new TV show to watch, looking for something, anything to bide my lonely existence. Enter Cosmos, comfortably sitting quite high up in the rankings - OK, a science show on the all-time top 10 list in IMDB? Keep in mind at the time I have never heard of this show, nor watched many science-related shows. My interest was definitely piqued at first sight.An entire cosmos series later, this is now my favourite show. Ever, of all time. It is the only show to date to have changed the way I see the world, to make me critically question my faith like I've never had before, and to inspire me in more ways than one. The show, steered by the guiding narration of Carl Sagan, helped me appreciate the beauties and many mysteries of the universe. Cosmos allowed me to explore, internally and externally, my own attitudes towards science as a whole, as well as learn about the many people who came before me who've tried to make sense of the world for the betterment of others through the only method that's remained constant throughout the ages, through the only method we as humans know how to carry out - science.Bravo Carl Sagan, bravo. An inspiration, truly. 10/10.

No words can explain what feelings this show has arose in me. Carl Sagan leads brilliantly every chapter, being his passion for the subject in question evident and contagious. We explored, by his hand, our past and see it connected with the cosmos around us. We learned about its origin and of ourselves as human beings. We stay with some important lessons to think about once the show is over, which includes the care for our only home (the earth), the conception of human beings as one race (beyond our cultural differences), the need to learn surviving our technological adolescence, etc.And all of the above, with the ambiance of the perfect music for the occasion (goosebumps).You just watch it. Everybody must do it. This show is a life changing experience.