Wall Street Journal review: Awesome Australia
The PBS program presents a dazzling world of wildlife, wild weather and archaeological marvels.
By Dorothy Rabinowitz
July 26, 2018 6:17 pm ET
The Kimberley of PBS’s “Outback: The Kimberley Comes Alive” is so dazzling a world of wildlife, wild weather and archaeological marvels—not least the preserved footsteps of what were surely the most immense dinosaurs ever to tread the earth—it can feel impossible to keep up with it. With, that is, the spectacularly filmed night skies, the rains, the 130-million-year-old limestone ranges, the drive through the vast isolation of the Australian Outback. In this place where volunteers come to protect wildlife—a category that includes distinctly unwild baby kangaroos who have lost their mothers, and other small creatures. A local commentator bitterly inveighs against the loss of many of these precious species, thanks, he says, to the invasion of the cats introduced by European immigrants. He is clear on the subject of cats, all of which he would apparently like to see dead.
