If you are tired of the Hoffman's debacles but still enjoy watching shows that take place in Alaska and deal with hunting for gold, this show is a gold mine! (pun intended). I like all the characters on this show, especially Zeke, Emily, and the Kelly's. There is a lot of danger in the show and it keeps your attention all the way through. I'm really hoping there will be a season 9!

This show has always been intensely, obviously fake to anyone with eyes and ears and half a brain, and you'll never learn anything about gold dredging, but it's become all about a scantily clad Emily Riedel, with producers contriving ridiculous situations to play on her gender or supposed sexual appeal, such as creating an "all girl" dredging crew filled with women who do nothing and quit, or having a romance with some guy named Zeke. Really, who cares? She's actually quite ugly inside and out. Not to mention that this is an insult to anyone who finds men attractive. They could have focused more on the obvious sexuality that men have with each other when stuck on a boat for long periods, rugged, real men and the sex that they have... but this suffers from "head and hands" syndrome, where you'll see no male skin other than their heads and hands. Everything else is covered up in layers of clothing because it's freezing cold out there in Alaska. Sometimes, even that is covered in gloves and airmasks and diving suits that wrap up and around the head. The exception would be Zeke, for whom producers obviously hired a nutritionist and fitness trainer so that he could look more muscular in a black T-shirt and strain to have chemistry with his on-screen girlfriend Emily, as she dives into the frigid water in a bikini, saying "dude" after every sentence, acting like a dramatic B-word or trying and failing to act like she knows what she's doing.My recommendation is to watch porn. It actually has nudity and penetration with prettier, smarter women.

FIRST IMPRESSION (seasons 1 and 2)Yes I'm hooked on this latest reality offering. BSG is a must see if you enjoy seeing a disparate group of quirky characters struggle to get rich quick. Many are up to their eyeballs in debt and need a mini El Dorado to put them back on their financial feet. Most people contemplate panning or digging for their gold. Not this group of adventurers. They all go out to sea on dinky little barges and dive for their gold. Sucking up the booty from the sea floor using industrial strength vacuum hoses. All except the Pomrenkes who mine from a massive barge using a dredge to scoop up gold bearing silt.I love the contrasts of characters in this show. The aforementioned Pomrenkes exhibit the classic father and son schism that makes for good drama. Zeke lusts after Emily to no avail. Emily has aspirations to be an opera singer. Yeah right! And Sarah Palin had aspirations of being president. Emily's dad is a complex character who drives his boss Vern crazy. And then there's Scott, an anti hero if ever there was one. I was amazed to see him return for a second series. Not only that, he had 'friends' working on his boat. Although I don't know how long they'll last as friends.All in all it's a very entertaining show. I doubt whether any of them will become rich but they are on an interesting journey.LATEST IMPRESSION (seas0ons 3 and 4)Sadly BSG has now become a farcical soap opera. Little time is now spent focusing on gold dredging. Season 4 is more about the antics of featured 'personalities' such as Brad Kelly, Shawn Pomrenke and Emily Reidel. I find none of these people particularly appealing and personally question the authenticity of this show. Some say it's scripted and I wouldn't be surprised if that was revealed to be the case. Call me cynical but I smell a rat. I now find this show hard to watch and sincerely hope the producers return the focus of the program to gold digging adventurers trying to make it big. If you also feel jaded by this version of 'reality' then you could do a lot worse than watching Yukon Gold, a show without the gimmicks that BSG feels is necessary to chase the ratings.

I have followed a few of these reality-shows the last couple of years, and this show i have to rate No3 after Pawn Stars and Auction Hunters.It has drama, stupidity, odd fellows and fellas, fun dialog and GOLD. I'd say it is way better then Gold Rush Alaska, but i guess that is a matter of taste. Only thing i can object too is the difference in materials they use for getting the gold up, i mean, how can the others compete against a Land-based mining-facility converted to be on the sea?I hope that they keep the "psycopath" another season, makes it more interesting as long as he doesn't get into another fistfight.