Stumbled upon Vice during a free month trial of HBO. Wow... what a great concept -- info about current events presented without network TV fluff, and no ad breaks.Initially, I thought 15 minutes per topic wasn't enough to cover a topic. I was wrong. Without ads, and without producers needing to be concerned about advertiser repercussion for honest and unbiased presentation of controversial subject matter -- it's like the orange juice concentrate of TV -- just add viewers ;-)If I'm being honest, having 4 seasons to choose from is ideal as not all the episodes contained something that sparked my interest. The show did however prompt me to keep my HBO Now subscription recurring and I definitely look at the summary of Vice each week to see if it's something I want to learn more about.Vice won't give you 100% of the info on everything it covers, but I don't think it intends to. It's a springboard for motivation to learn more if that first 15 minutes wets your appetite for knowledge.

I gave it 2 because the show actually has some descent photography but the rest of the show is a paid for propaganda stunt and so intentionally misleading and aimed at people's emotions that one can only see it as a liberal lie fest. Sure they tackle some serious aspects of modern life but they tackle like little girls on a major rugby international. What possesses people to make this sort of stuff? Very simple answers. 1. Money - typically funded from unknown backrooms for the benefit of maintaining the scare tactics that liberals need to propagate to win in politics. This show is all about making Americans feel guilty and to blame it all on the Americans who are of course not the Democrats but the very evil Republicans. This show is so transparent it made my 14 year old daughter ask me.. Dad? WHY are they never asking opinions from people who disagree with them? Good question me thinks. Listen people - this show is garbage. 2. The second reason is that the climate change industry requires people to feel the fear of catastrophes about to happen so they can stay in existence. The scientific community is seriously split about this stuff and saying that all scientists who disagree must be in the pocket of the evil big business is just stupid. I belong to this scientific community and although my area of interest is not related to climate change many of my colleagues are and to a person they are extremely worried that the debate has been hijacked by liberal politics and those problems that we all agree do exist are not going to get dealt with because although the Democrats make a lot of noise they DO NOTHING just like the fool on the hill has done nothing for 6 years. Wise up people. The democrats and their minders are snake oil salesmen and not interested in anything but power. Good luck with that. Please grow the frack up. So it is a ploy to maintain the fear. Democrats require a scared and emotionally upset electorate to win. Rational thinking is not on their agenda. So please all you very stupid liberals vote for Hillary and then please go down with the sinking ship because that is exactly what Obama has started. Now to finish off I would like to mention that the people doing the presenting are about the worst I have ever seen for a show that says it is a information based hard hitting journalistic one. Yikes people. This is a joke. Not one of these anchor people has anything between their ears and certainly are spinning the lies they are given by their masters (whoever they really are????). It is as rigged as world championship wrestling. Get a grip on reality people and do not watch this garbage.

This is rare gem of true journalism. What we see mostly on daily news is not news but propaganda of either govt or corporatist where every story has views of so called experts who has vested interests in giving the opinion they do. Some will accuse this series of being biased against big govt or big corporates but funnily they don't think anything biased in big corporate sponsored news shows as paid opinions. The journalism by definition involves showing two sides of story with neutral eye , but most news channels shows only one side of story, the story which they want us to see. This program speaks for those who cant speak themselves; the common people, oppressed ordinary folks who are victims and whose stories no one is interested in. As for big corporates and govt they always have a media to rest their case but for a change it is nice to have a show which shows other side of coin. You don't have to agree with it , you can still oppose it but how can you truly make your mind unless you see both sides of the story? Those who oppose this series as biased , i will say, see it and make your mind, its unpolished gem with mostly views of ordinary people and tats a big thing which is missing in today's TV media.At another level watching this series is a humbling experience. It shows complexities , absurdities and sheer vastness of the the world we live in. Makes us empathize with them and helps comes out of this little bubble called as America. Its truly eye opening , in most literal sense coz most of the stories shown here are beyond our wildest imagination and if anyone has told that such things are happening in the same world , it would have been hard to believe . ( like Nigeria story or Kazakhstan story ) so thanks for an inspiring and humanizing experience.

I'll start with the negative. Yes, there's some room for improvement: there is some bias (but I think understandable in almost all cases), hidden cameras are used which can be low-quality and even when high quality cameras are used they're often not in ideal filming conditions (but both of these are nearly impossible to rectify given the scenarios), also, I would enjoy longer episodes, often the 15 minutes per story just doesn't seem like enough. Eventually I'd like to see this show move up to an hour long slot with 20 minutes per story, but that may be too ambitious for now.However, the positives of this show are simply overwhelming, there's absolutely nothing like this in existence when it comes to investigative journalism. I think it's revolutionary, personally, and hope it raises the bar for other television news outlets, which frankly are unwatchable. The world could be a better place because of the awareness this show brings to Americans, it's extremely ambitious and I have high hopes for its future. For now, after a season and a half (maybe this review is premature though), I feel like the sky is the limit for Vice. It deserves a watch from everyone, regardless of your viewpoint.