Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age Season 3 Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
The first episode looks at the coldest and snowiest environment, in the northern regions of the planet. The aforementioned mammoth who is struggling against the blizzard is about to give birth, and when she does, the calf she births is unconscious. The rest of the herd surrounds mother and child to give them warmth until the storm passes.
We see a family of giant sloths; as Hiddleston says in his narration, families stayed together longer during this era due to the scarce resources available. A cave-dwelling mama bear leaves her cubs exposed to the prowling of cave lions, with minimal protection from cave hyenas. A young female saber-tooth cat still has her milk teeth, meaning she has “double sabers”, which pose a problem when trying to subdue prey. Wooly rhinos, with huge horns to dig through the ice and snow for food, protect the oldest and youngest members of the herd.
Produced by Jon Favreau, Mike Gunton and the BBC Studios Natural History Unit, Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age has a somewhat different feel than the first two seasons of the Prehistoric Planet series. The first is Hiddleston’s narration; he’s there to make the scenes, created by visual effects studio Framestore, feel more dramatic and give the show a more narrative feel than the drier seasons narrated by Attenborough. The show succeeds in amping up that drama, though the nature series tropes are generally adhered to.
As with the first two seasons, we really appreciated the detail of the CGI graphics that created these long-ancient animals, who are placed in what we assume were mostly real-life shots of their particular environments. There were tiny moments when we were aware we were looking at visual effects instead of something real. But for the most part, we felt immersed enough in the action to forget that we were looking at some species that left the planet thousands if not millions of years ago.
Another thing that this docuseries will examine is how the dropping temperatures affected the ecosystems of the 3/4 of the planet that weren’t covered in ice. Even during the Ice Age, there were hot deserts and temperate regions, but all environments were made harsher by the fact that a quarter of the world was ice. Seeing the environmental impact of the dropping global temps will be interesting to watch.
The end of each episode has a mini-documentary called “Under The Ice”, and in the first episode, the examination of ice cores and the trapped gasses within them shows that there were actually eight Ice Ages during the Pleistocene, which we never knew before. The mini-docs are a good way to add real-world context to all the CGI drama.
