Reviews

Full Steam Ahead maintains the high quality this group of historians have shown in their other series. I'm not a big train fan, but showing, demonstrating, and explaining the huge changes the rails brought to UK (and all modern) society is fascinating.

Each episode packs in a lot of detailed information while moving along quickly and showing living-history details not seen elsewhere.

The hosts are as engaging as they always are and while I expected this series to be less interesting than their other historical series, it was amongst the best.

A good story (history) well told makes any subject interesting. I defy anyone not to be enthralled by the puffing metal monsters after watching this series. Watch this, it's very good.

Strangely, very little actual cooking is shown in this. Also, the "contestants" are moved from role to role in the kitchen, and let go, for maximum drama rather than for any cooking skill or lack thereof.

The premise that a group of cooking-newbs (even working under an amazing chef) could come into a restaurant and. in the course of two-days time. learn to cook an assortment of the award winning restaurant's own specialties better than the originals is ridiculous. It's simply not credible.

Either the selected restaurant was not so great to begin with (making a victory trivial) or the "victory" is a lie. Neither answer is good for the viewer.

This show fails on all counts.