This is a rip off on two fronts. Firstly, it rips off the far better "Connections" with James Burke. Burke's series was a breakthrough, his delivery superb. While Rowe is pleasant, he doesn't stray far from the second rip off: this is a series to promote "BIG OIL". It's paid for by the oil industry and Rowe never wastes an opportunity to show how oil is in everything and how dependant we are upon the oil industry. It becomes sickening to watch.