Repetition is rarely a readers’ favorite. But sometimes a point bears repeating. At the top of my review of The Dinosaurs E1, I mentioned how strange and uncomfortable it is to have the show narrated by a celebrity who has faced allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior from at least eight people. A bad choice to begin with. Even worse when that accused man is narrating lines about the big, strong male dinosaur luring a smaller female into the depths of a swamp - not out of bloodlust, Freeman intones, but “just plain lust.”

It’s all part and parcel of the documentary’s second episode, wallowing in its Mesozoic misogyny.

If you struggled with E1 of The Dinosaurs, many of the same issues remain. The show doesn’t so much have a flair for the dramatic as a reliance upon it, the opening sequence making it seem as if the volcano-driven Triassic/Jurassic extinction transpired in a matter of moments. The disaster is relatively little-known compared to others, such as the K/Pg or end-Permian extinctions, but the accumulated evidence so far indicates that extinctions triggered by the environmental consequences of massive lava outpourings occurred in pulses for tens or even hundreds of thousands of years. The program makes it seem as if molten rock threatened to subsume most of the planet directly, toxic gases poisoning environments virtually overnight. There is no explanation of or patience for time scales here - a trait shared with some other recent prestige dinosaur shows - and so the pivotal event that allowed dinosaurs to flourish in the Early Jurassic is collapsed into a Michael Bay snippet.