This show is insulting to my intelligence, annoying to the point of distraction and so repetitive that if you turned it into a drinking game, you'd be dead in the first 10 minutes! The narration will make you want to kill somebody and the characters act so stupid it's amazing they don't hurt themselves getting out of bed. In the first season some plausible theories were explored, but as of the 5th season they have been delving into the always profitable Knights Templar conspiracy theory. In one episode a so called "metal detecting expert" called a railroad spike a 16th century Spanish galleon deck nail! And now there are rumors floating around that the Lead Cross they "found" at Smith's Cove is a fake planted by the production company! The only enjoyable part is the Kook of the week segment where some nutcase explains his or her hairbrained theory about who hid the treasure. They are even speculating that Canada was named by the templars after a village in France! Don't waste your time on this sorry excuse for a show, it spreads pseudo history, peddles conspiracy theories, flogs fake artifacts and is exactly the kind of disgraceful garbage that the history channel spews out today!

The concepts discussed in this show could be interesting, but they have managed to produce a show that is unbearable to watch. The majority of the segments are either previews of the next segment, completely repeating the previews, or a few minutes of new material, then a commercial break. It's nothing but a build up to nothing. Over the course of the seasons, there have been less than a handful of "fruitful" discoveries. How have there been so many episodes of this expensive childhood fantasy?

Let me be clear, I love this show. The people, the story, the mystery and all that follows with it, but there are things being done about this production and the episodes that destroys almost all the good that The Curse of Oak Island has to offer, and that is a big shame.What can be more intriguing than a possible mystery treasure buried under an intelligent construction on an island hundreds of years ago? Not much for me. But when we are in 2017 and we pretend that we can't analyse a hole in the ground and stop working on it as soon as we encounter bedrock and keep going away from SIGNIFICANT clues & indications that we should inspect as a step to uncover the full story of the mystery on Oak Island, all sanity stops. This is the clearest indicator that The Curse of Oak Island is entertainment, and not an exciting piece of ground-breaking history in the making. However the show attemps to be both, and as such it suffers a severe identity-problem.We are now 5 seasons into the show and yet it is always 2 steps forward and 10 steps back. This could had been the greatest treasure-show of all time, but it keeps repeating itself and baiting the viewers one episode at a time. Every week you hope something significant will happen, but more than 60% of the time they re-tell the same stories or talk about some kind of pottery found in the ground.Get real. Get moving. Figure out the mystery. We've had enough of history and what-if's by now. Sincerely, a genuine fan.

LISTEN UP! I live a stones throw away from Oak Island and want to call this to an end. I have NEVER heard of anything being discovered on Oak Island. Somehow after their recent trip to France they mysteriously discover a cross that looks like one they wasted all their time and effort on. Need I slay PLANTED!