River Monsters was a fucking rad show honestly. There's just this old British guy who looks like he keeps a large knife on his ankle for murdering people. And he just goes to the middle of buttfuck nowhere and hears about some random legend about some random guy going out on a lake or river and then never coming back, figures it must've been a big fucking fish, then he says, "well fuck, guess I gotta find this fish." Then he goes and fishes for a few days and finds the fucking fish, he puts it back and then he's on to the next adventure.
How fucking awesome is that??? I mean, the only reason the show ended was that he caught every fucking large freshwater fish. No more fish to catch, he indeed have to catch them all and did.
Also, his name is fucking Jeremy Wade. How awesome is that name??? That's a name made for a fisherman. Fucking great. He also made an effort to speak these foreign languages if not fully speaking them, for a British guy that's pretty good. He always embraced these cultures, he never made them seemed primitive or less educated.
He also tried to draw attention to the reasons that the fish were less prevalent and smaller today than they used to be, like pollution or encroaching on their environments or overfishing and excessive commercial fishing.
I'm not even a fishing guy. I haven't been fishing in like a decade and I don't intend to any time soon but this guy makes it awesome.
And I almost forgot, he also had a fish trivia thing for the ad breaks. Every time there was an ad break, there's be a cool trivia question.
It was so much better than a lot of other "we gotta find this weird legend thing" shows cause they really never did find anything. It really was the blueballing of television but Jeremy almost always found that goddamn fish or at least tried his best.
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