User Reviews

When they started this series two years ago, the put the shows together differently. The story of the Kellogg brothers was told in the first two episodes in 2019. As the previous reviewer succinctly noted, this appeared to be a repackaging of those episodes.

Now I haven't seen those earlier episodes for 2 years and did not keep them, but as far as I can recall, nothing in this June 27 presentation was not aired in one of those two episodes. I went through it all thinking they'd have an expanded story line but nothing seemed new to me.

I must add that if you never watched this series before and the show this evening was new to you, it likely would be much enjoyed as it was quite informative about the nature of the Kellogg brothers and how C. W. Post was truly an unscrupulous businessman. As far as the real facts they presented, I think they were pretty accurate, based on other things I've seen or read about these men.

Trying to emphasize how breakfast cereals changed people's morning habits, the speakers here made some false claims, giving the impression that most Americans did not eat breakfast until Grape Nuts and Corn Flakes were introduced. What the Americans before the beginning of the 20th Century didn't do was simply have a serving of cold cereal. They enjoyed all sorts of other foods for breakfast, some cold or room temperature, some hot including the traditional ham and eggs, or bacon and eggs, or some sort of pancakes, which were easy to fry up and serve.

Since I overall enjoyed this enough to give it a score of 7, I cut that in half because this show is essentially a repackaged rerun of portions of two episodes from before. Then I scored it down for the misleading statements from the "experts" that get interviewed.

As an aside, I wish I knew why Adam is always being interviewed in what appears to be an empty warehouse? If that's where he lives, the man really could use an interior decorator.