The risk with any series like this is that it will run too long. You may recall “In Search of …”, where they started out looking for Troy and Atlantis, but by the end of the series they were trying to find Vic Damone.
This series kinda has the same problem. They started out with Rembrandt and Michelangelo, but by next season they’ll be running tributes to the guy who painted dogs playing poker.
Or even worse – Mondrian and Jackson Pollock.
In the second season they’re still at a decent level with Gustav Klimt and Frida Kahlo. They probably skipped over more important figures, but they picked the right ones to tell interesting stories. Klimt was kind of the Terry Richardson of his own time. He never married, and slept with many of his models, resulting in 14 child-support claims, although only six children were fully documented and acknowledged. Not only did he avoid marriage, but he never lived with any of the three women who bore his six acknowledged kids.
Making a cultural/historic documentary for a public service TV channel with nudity is pretty much unthinkable in the US, is it?
In Germany it’s not an issue.
Yep, they’re still terrified of boobs here. Meanwhile, every European country has its own version of naked attraction on regular TV.
That’s a bit of exaggeration. Only 9 countries of the 27 EU countries have a local Naked Attraction version: