Series · Prime Video · 2011
Wild Kratts
Brothers who like the creature enough to tell the truth about it. One of the better things on the children's shelf.
Chris and Martin Kratt have been doing this long enough that the suit gadgets are beside the point. The point is a child who can say what a creature eats, how it keeps its young, and why you do not drag it home. The villain plots are simple. The footage and the facts are generous.
Good for Kiki and Louise, and not an insult to Annie. Watch one and then go look at one real animal where you live, even a sparrow, and say one true sentence about it.
The eight
Industry
8/10
Creature knowledge is the work, repeated until a child could say it back.
Household
6/10
Brothers who stay a team. Parents are offscreen. The pair is steady.
Piety
4/10
Wonder at a living thing. Not worship of it, and not a joke.
Courage
7/10
They go where the animal is, and the danger is the animal's real life, scaled for a child.
Republic
6/10
A small crew with jobs. Villains are the people who would take the creature out of its life.
Temperance
8/10
No cruelty played for fun. The animal's limit is respected.
Truth
8/10
The facts are the point, not a garnish on a toy line.
Stewardship
9/10
A child leaves knowing how a thing lives, which is something they can hand to a younger sibling.
Live historicallyLearn one true thing about an animal you share a block with, and tell it at dinner.
