TV series
The world's worst diseases
2019 · 2 seasons
A playful, slightly gross history lesson where two volunteers gamely endure past diseases, making grim facts feel light and digestible.
- Starring
- Erik Ekstrand
- Overview
- Typhus, malaria, polio and measles - throughout history, humanity has been affected by terrible, contagious and sometimes fatal diseases. Erik Ekstrand takes us on a terrifying journey where he lets two guinea pigs try out some of the worst plagues that have plagued Sweden. We go back to, among other things, the Viking Age, the Stone Age and the 1950s. Every week a new disease is tested.
- How it feels
- Light, whimsical, dark and earnest. Brisk and easy to follow.
- About
- Survival, science, death, education
- Content
- Mild violence and gore. No sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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