Did you like Minute by Minute, the cable show that stepped you through a disaster and every link in the chain of events? I know I did. I love the idea you could take what must have felt like chaos and then slow it down and make sense of it.
So now there’s this Disaster Autopsy* show that does the same, only with fancy graphics and a bit less of a ticking-clock narrative. In fact, they started at the end of the Columbia disaster and then worked backward, step by step.
There’s a narrator who sounds very much like the narrator of Curse of Oak Island, Robert Clotworthy. “What can make a shuttle wing change shape?” he asks, perplexed. “Being hit by some foam at lift-off?” I respond, feebly. Talking back to this narrator is not as satisfying as shouting at the screen “OAK ISLAND IS JUST ONE GIANT SINKHOLE.”
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*Incidentally, a friend heard the title — Disaster Autopsy — and interpreted it to mean “World’s Worst Autopsies” or “Autopsies Gone Wrong” and was sorely let down. And now I think THAT show needs to be made.
2 responses to “Review: Disaster Autopsy”
… the main ways in which you can do an autopsy wrong are, if I understand it correctly:
1. perform an autopsy on someone who isn’t dead
2. make a mistake during an autopsy which will mean the person performing the autopsy will be dead soon
I guess if you include autopsies on people who will then have open-casket funerals, there are a much wider range of options, though…
KC – eww. Like face autopsies? Oh, well, they do usually peel the forehead down.