Meerkat Manor - Season 1
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Movie Reviews of Meerkat Manor - Season 1
Movie Review: Meerkat Manor Rocks.
Summary: 5 Stars
Meerkat Manor chronicles the lives and deaths of a family of meerkats living in the Kalahari desert in Africa. MM is a nature show but by focusing on the individual personalities and conflicts it gives the show a definite Soap Opera quality. A soap opera where the stakes are life and death.
The "cast" consists of:
FLOWER: The leader who rules with an iron fist and a big heart. As matriarch only she is allowed to mate, any female that gets pregnant runs the risk of being exiled. Evicted meerkats have only two choices, hope to be eventually forgiven and be accepted back in the group or death by predators or disease. Zaphod is Flowers partner and mate.
Yousarrian is Zaphods brother, but he is also Flowers ex and he is mentally unstable and unpredictable and his antics lead to more than one crisis that will end in death. Flowers daughters Mozart, Tosca and Daisy all get pregnant during this season which leads to tons of problems, evictions and tough choices.The episode DAISYS CHOICE is heartbreaking. Meanwhile Flowers son Shakespere tangles with a snake which leaves him fighting for his life. It is very touching how his sisters Mozart and Tosca stayed by his side to protect him as best as they could.
Also it wouldnt ba a soap without villians. The Lazuli are the main enemy this season, led by Big Cy they are a dangerous threat to the Whiskers. The only other lazuli who gets screen time is Carlos who is more interested in making love not war and handily seduces all three of daughters.
My only complaint is Sean Astins boring narration, so much drama deserves a little spice in the narration.
Overall 13 drama filled episodes at 20 bucks is a steal. And Season two is even better. EP
Movie Review: My All Time Favorite TV program
Summary: 5 Stars
This is reality TV. It chronicles the life and death struggles of a family trying to survive in a dangerous inhospitable climate. If you open yourself up a little, you'll get emotionally attached to the individual meerkats and their fates will be very important to you. Nothing compares to the real emotional impact of a creature's real survival or real death. Fictional and so-called reality TV have nothing on this show. And unlike most nature shows where the animals are unknown and you have no connection with them, you will know and care about these meerkats. I can honestly say this is the first and only show that has made me cry. Don't get me wrong, Meerkat Manor can be quite joyful too--it's not all sad.
In short, if you are an amimal lover or a somewhat caring individual you will love this show. Don't read anymore about it because you might run across spoilers and this show is best seen without knowing what happens. Just buy seasons 1-3 and prepare yourself for something you will never forget. Make sure you get the 'complete' versions though, as there is also a best of set which leaves out a lot of stuff.
It is my all time favourite TV program.
Movie Review: Caution: May Be Habit Forming!
Summary: 5 Stars
Mob wars. Family feuds. Illicit affairs. Yes, these are all parts of Meerkat Manor Season 1. The nature show with a twist. The twist being Meerkats. Meerkats are a cooperative animal that live in family groups "mobs". They have a very strict social structure that can get a meerkat evicted for not following the dominates rules. They are also smart and oh so adorable! Season 1 is my personal favorite as it introduces us to the Whiskers. Flower, Zaphod, Youssarian, Tosca, Mozart, Daisy and Shakespeare. No finer meerkats ever lived then the original 7!
While all seasons of MM are excellent, Season 1 is much easier on the heart strings. There are more triumphs then losses, which can't be said for the upcoming seasons. I highly recommend Season 1 for everyone in the family. It is educational and immensely entertaining! The episode "An Awfully Big Adventure" is one of the cutest things I have ever seen on TV and worth numerous viewings alone.
Once you go meerkat, you won't go back!
Movie Review: Excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
The DVD set arrived earlier that expected and in time for my daughter's birthday. Great Service!Movie Review: Meet the Meerkats
Summary: 4 Stars
In real life, meerkats probably aren't very cute, but on "Meerkat Manor" they are simply adorable. The show is culled from material gathered by Cambridge University's Kalahari Meerkat Project, which has been ongoing for a decade. The researchers carefully track the meerkats, and the show focuses on the most successful family, the Whiskers. During Season 1, the Whiskers are thriving under the leadership of dominant female, Flower. She rules the family along with her mate, Zaphod, and she does whatever she needs to do to make sure the family succeeds. As the dominant female, she is able to mate and decide whether or not the other females in the group can mate as well. Typically, only the dominant female mates as too many pups make it difficult to feed the family in the harsh Kalahari. If other females get pregnant, there can be trouble, as we see when two of Flower's daughters deliver pups in Season 1.
The show is simple - we watch the daily routines of the meerkats, which are surprisingly structured. They awaken, clean the burrow, forage for grubs, babysit the pups, bask in the sun, and then retire to the burrow for the evening. As such, the episodes can become a bit repetitious, even when the main focus is on unusual incidents (birth of pups, battles with neighboring clans over precious territory, encounters with puff adders). Fortunately, the producers edit the material creatively, allowing us to get to know the meerkats and their unique personalities, largely via narration by Sean Astin. Viewers come to care about the Whiskers. I certainly developed some favorites, particularly Shakespeare (one of Flower's sons), and I was saddened when another favorite (Mozart) was evicted from the clan.
The episodes average only 20 minutes and really zip along quickly without commercial breaks; I can easily watch 4 of them in a sitting. My only quibble is that the show anthropormorphizes the meerkats to a sometime ridiculous extent. The animals are acting largely on instinct, but the narration makes them sound far more human. Of course, that emphasis is a large part of what makes the show entertaining and the meerkats so darned loveable. So it's a quibble I'm more than happy to live with, even if I sometimes find it a bit too much.