only 2 episodes and the second one just jumps on the string theory bandwagon even after that wagon crashed a few years ago, the fact that hawkings never totally agreeded with string theory and the way the narrator uses the little bits he does agree with to make it look better is just wrong. Also he mentions that hawking discovered black holes again not true it was Schwarzschild (using einstiens equations) as i said if you know nothing about physics this would be a good dvd.

I suppose everyone is interested in the origins of the universe, but I am afraid that not everyone is destined to understand what is discovered by the boffins of this world. The series does it's best at trying to explain recent developments in layman's terms, but I can't help but think that trying to explain The Big Bang was somewhat easier than trying to explain M theory. The concept of a bang we can all understand. Multi-dimensional brane collisions is something completely different. Or is it?
Anyway, it's all very well done and does it's best to be understandable. Not everyones cup of tea though.