re: Shark Week 2026 is about to begin

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You don't remember things like the megaladon special, where actors pretended to be real scientists and the 'this is bullshite' disclaimer zipped by the screen too fast to read?

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That killed it for me.

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Yep, haven't watched a minute since. No idea why that pissed me off so bad

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One of the saddest things I have ever watched. .

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EVER. Me and the wife cried and put us in a sour mood. We joke from time to time how much we hate Orcas because of that. I just looked it up and google is telling me it was on Mammals on BBC not Our Planet on Netflix. Does that sound right?

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I couldn't be a camera operator on a nature doc like that. I would want to intervene somehow and save the poor baby.

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All of this. Saw one that had an elephant (my favorite animal) they were following and it got lost from the herd and wandered around in the wilderness and died of thirst. I'm like what the actual F, who cares about letting nature take it's course, get that freaking national treasure some water and back to it's herd.

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That isnt even the one I am thinking of. I think the one I remember was a show on HBO Max about this state of the art research vessel that were tracking Sperm Whales. They had followed them to their nursery waters and had several of the rigid inflatable hull boats and a damn helicopter watching two separate pods of Orca work together to drown this baby Sperm Whale. And the whole time the mother whale was doing her damndest to keep that baby at the surface

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O hell no. Hard pass. I'm too much of a softy for that.

Give me a pack of lions killing a wildebeest or something, sure, that's entertaining. But baby whales, elephants, seals falling off cliffs because they have no room to move... nah.

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I think this is it. I'm not watching it to find out because I don't want to cry at work

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That is just a kidnapping video, not a "follow until it tires and attack/kill it" video. So I suspect it's not what you are talking about.

But that video is both brutal and slick as frick. Orcas are incredible.


ETA: Nevermind, I found a longer clip that shows them actually killing and eating the calf. That's awesome shite. And sad, yes. But shite like that is fascinating to me and doesn't make me cry.

Looking for that clip, I found another one where a pod of orca practice drowning one another so they can attack and do it to a fricking blue whale. Incredible shite:

This link is to reddit where the continuation of the video you posted is. The link is broken, but you can right-click it and remove the "REMOVE" since I don't want to directly link reddit here: LINK.

I found the video of what your AI description is, but a lot of it is CGI though (the underwater stuff):

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Nat Geo's is Shark Fest. It's on for a couple of weeks.

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Thanks for the info. All I knew was there was nothing but shark shows listed on the cable guide for NatGeo all day long last week.