The idea is a great one, looking for lost treasure! The show is based around historical facts and does well to reel you in early on, I watched on loosely but was soon hooked on finding out whether or not they'll find a way into the mountain that they're certain contains treasure. Over the first few episodes you feel the frustration of the crew as they hit dead end after dead end looking for entrances and tunnels but getting nowhere, although as series one goes on you quickly pick up the feeling that none of them really know what they're doing or what they're talking about, even their expert who claims to have decades of experience has a 'winging it' air about him. Sadly any frustrations they seem to have through the series become dwarfed by your frustration as in the dying minutes of the end of the last episode (series 1, ep 7) the crew find an entrance and the credits roll - you're shown no investigation, no hunt now they're clearly on the right path, nothing.
Everything that's spread out over the seven episodes could have been done just as respectfully and informatively over two or three and the last episode is a bigger anticlimax than a Christmas if nobody turned up.
Despite all the recapping in each episode and it big repetitive in places I'd have given it 6 or 7 stars as it's been an interesting way to pass the time, but it all builds up to such an anticlimactic ending that the whole series feels like a huge waste of time.
Everything that's spread out over the seven episodes could have been done just as respectfully and informatively over two or three and the last episode is a bigger anticlimax than a Christmas if nobody turned up.
Despite all the recapping in each episode and it big repetitive in places I'd have given it 6 or 7 stars as it's been an interesting way to pass the time, but it all builds up to such an anticlimactic ending that the whole series feels like a huge waste of time.