This isn't your typical planet earth/ nature series.
Beautifully filmed yes, but it is a drama that will suck you in. Empire in the title is well suited, even though you get a lot scenes about the overall life in the rain forest it is mostly focused on the central and western tribes and their various personalities. Don't expect to get a pure a vast amount of life and overall culture and see a multitude of different animals, sure they show up but as a backdrop of life around the characters you get to know. You could say it's a narrow field of view focused on the inter relationships and politics and power struggles of the tribe like Abrams and Jackson. Empire has you thinking one way about where it's heading , it sucks you in with getting to the individual chimps and their world to a shocking ending of their first episode, to a history of betrayal and some plot twists if you will. The scientists embedded in the forest capture fascinating and up close and personal view of the chimps in such a candid way but it's not a science based series, Empire is in the name , so don't expect a lot of the everyday life and suck, sure it's there, but it's the power struggle that it eventually becomes the main focus and it's worth it! I'm so fascinated by the chimp's personalities!
Beautifully filmed yes, but it is a drama that will suck you in. Empire in the title is well suited, even though you get a lot scenes about the overall life in the rain forest it is mostly focused on the central and western tribes and their various personalities. Don't expect to get a pure a vast amount of life and overall culture and see a multitude of different animals, sure they show up but as a backdrop of life around the characters you get to know. You could say it's a narrow field of view focused on the inter relationships and politics and power struggles of the tribe like Abrams and Jackson. Empire has you thinking one way about where it's heading , it sucks you in with getting to the individual chimps and their world to a shocking ending of their first episode, to a history of betrayal and some plot twists if you will. The scientists embedded in the forest capture fascinating and up close and personal view of the chimps in such a candid way but it's not a science based series, Empire is in the name , so don't expect a lot of the everyday life and suck, sure it's there, but it's the power struggle that it eventually becomes the main focus and it's worth it! I'm so fascinated by the chimp's personalities!