Original air date: 16 April 2021
Broadcast on Apple TV
The list below gives a closer look into what is happening during those almost 50 minutes
It is tempting to wonder why no authorities used the opportunities of closed factories to fix their filtering systems. Usually the blame for not having them replaced with new and better ones seemed to be due to the lack of opportunities. They would never dare shut them down. This was the opportunity but it seemed it went passed unused.
Reception:
Most people seemed to like it like those on ‘rotten tomatoes‘, but a few seemed skeptical. It is true that some sequences looked almost staged (the sika deer finding their original feeding grounds in the absence of tourists), but maybe that has more to do with the cameramen being so good at their jobs that they can tell how the animals will react, that is what they have to do in the wild. There had been numerous such sequences of animals venturing into people’s gardens in their absence all over the world media before this programme.