La malédiction d'Oak Island

Please please please don't cancel the show because I am addicted to the story and really like the guys on the show. They obviously are very passionate about what is buried on the island and how it git there and I hope the best for them.

What The History Channel needs to do though is stop repeating the same story of the curse - we get it, stop telling me what's coming next after the commercial and then recapping what I saw just before those commercials- if you think I can't remember that far back then you're airing too many commercials, and maybe combine a few episodes into one so I feel the team has accomplished something or give more details in place of the same curse chants so it doesn't feel like I wasted an hour watching 15 minutes of actual content.

Do not cancel it, fix the damage The History Channel has done to it.

I'll sum up this entire show: Marty "Would you say that's manmade?" Expert "Maybe." (Marty and Rick look at each other.) Narrator "A manmade structure? Could this be the final clue in the Oak Island mystery? Could it hold gold? Pirate treasure? Or something far, far more important?"

It's an alright show but they're connecting things on that island that are results of hundreds and hundreds of years of visitors leaving their own traces behind. The guess work in the digital video recreations paint a false image to the viewer.

In a way Rick and Marty did find gold, since they've invested a little over $5 mil and the show has made over $100 mil. In that way they were very clever.

Hideously slow, repetitive garbage built around some possibly interesting history.

These "treasure hunters" dig and gouge their way through Oak Island, instantly assuming everything they find is Norse or Roman and another clue to the treasure they seek. Each episode has a nugget of story stretched out to fill a 1-hour time slot. They stand around and talk and talk and talk.

There's an old cross, an old coin, a concrete wall, a mysterious cavern, a rock with "carvings," etc. With every "find," they jump to an array of conclusions that always hark back to the mythic Roman or Norse explorers from two centuries ago. Nothing is ever substantiated. The "experts" they consult add nothing to the endless blather.

I do very much enjoy this show. The story and possibilities are intriguing and cause you to wonder what could actually be found. The characters on the show are likable and enjoyable to watch. The cons are the constant repetition of the story during each episode and my biggest annoyance is the narrator. You can bank on 2-4 times during each episode when they will find something (Coin, piece of metal, etc) and the narrator will say something to the effect of..."piece of metal?!?! Could it be part of an alien space craft from long ago?!?!" Obviously I exaggerate, but you get the point.

The Lagina brothers have already found their treasure.

It is not at the bottom of the money pit.

It is in the heads of the gullible millions who think they can substitute their lack of historical knowledge with a "potentially significant" rusty nail. The same trick week after week, month after month, season after season.

These two clever chaps have got an army of addicted old boomers who think they are about to witness the last thrill of their life: finding out what was it all about.

It doesn't matter if there is a treasure on the island somewhere, the point is to always be just on the brink of finding it. "This season they will solve everything" the addicted pray. Like going to church to get your periodical fix of delegating responsibility for solving the mystery of life to someone else, someone with an elaborate story that can't be solved easily but promises to unlock something important, eventually. "Maybe we can keep them interested one more year" the brothers pray with each new season, and their prayer has been heard 9 times in a row already. I'm sure that at the end of this season they will be very close to solving it, again. Next year the same, the gods of TV ratings willing. And in the decades to come millions more will flock to the island to marvel at the altar of the "potentially significant" rusty nail.

The Laginas are digging in the hearts and minds of tv junkies and have already struck gold there. Congratulations!

Let the illusion of the almost solvable Oak Island mystery continue ad infinitum. Amen!