Bill Nye Saves the World is a convivial series that imports elements from Nye’s old series (mainly those amusing demos with bubbling colorful liquids, Bunsen burners and flasks) into a format that resembles “The Daily Show.”
While Bill Nye Saves the World is a relatively modest enterprise by Netflix's standards, it is, overall, an admirable addition to its lineup. If it's not quite a rescue mission, Nye appears to have taken to heart the concept of trying to provide a small beacon of light rather than just cursing the darkness.
The reviews left about this show are disappointing. I am currently in the pre-med field and can tell you that although the show is awkward and misguided in its approaches to present its science related information, the information presented is quite factual. Wether regarding fad diets, or alternative medicines, the man is providing information to all with sound evidence as to why these alternative ideas are in fact wrong. Peoples own cognitive bias has made them feel attacked by Bill's show which is simply an attempt at debunking the crazy ideas they believed to be true in the first place. We should not be hating this man for telling us what we need to hear, we should be thanking him. Thank you Bill.
This series is fantastic. It throws back to when i was growing up learning about random things every day. And Bill Nye the Science Guy will forever be the person that did that for me. Watch it with a light heart and an open mind and you might learn a thing or two. I hope this show keeps running, I think it is important
Though the series is made expressly for adults, the tone is confused thanks to an overly laugh-ready audience and Nye's Listen up, kids ways of explaining concepts. [21 Apr 2017, p.58]
Bill Nye Saves the World is just not that entertaining a show all-around. While the format is geared to adults, the content is too simple to be of interest to them. For kids who might try to watch, all the talking heads will be a bore.
This show is good. While, as other people have mentioned, the tone is a bit confused, I think it will really take off once they make get to know their audience.
A horribly and awkwardly written show that has some progressive ideas. The whole show really does feel like a commercial or propaganda (even if it is for a good cause), everything feels forced, fabricated and does not have a natural flow. Bill Nye and some of his hosts go from genuinely entertaining and thought-provoking to cringe inducing, condescending and at times patronizing. I can't fathom who is this shows audience: it's not for kids, it's not really for adults, my only guess is the aim audience is tweens or teens maybe, because of the way the show desperately tries to be hip and relevant, but in reality it isn't, at all. I'm just puzzled by it. So overall, I think the show has its heart in the right place, but if they plan to continue they seriously need to make some changes and get better writers, or just let Bill do his thing. It's not the worst thing ever, if you don't agree with the shows opinions and stances you shouldn't automatically write it down as a piece of ****. There's some good potential in here, but it's just buried deep deep deep down, under the studio execs horribly out of date decisions to the 30-40 year old writers trying to appeal to teen audiences and failing at it and the sad fact that Bill Nye feels like he just doesn't want to be there. I'd give this show an optimistic and very faint 4/10.
After the first two episodes, the new Bill Nye show has left a bad taste in my mouth.
It's not because it's some sjw propaganda, it's just simply bad.
The writing is completely unfunny. Bill feels unnatural, as though they told him he has to tone up his persona up to 11 to keep peoples interest, because they're afraid of a learning show turning people away. They're trying so hard to be loud and colorful with little substance.
As a millennial, the show feels so pandering to the point of insult.
The original Bill Nye never felt so fake and contrived, maybe because the educational content made it attractive to schools, while now they're trying to sell to young people, so they think it has to be wacky/over the top.
And the thing is... we young people already accept science. Echo chambers don't "save the world", they just make Netflix more money.