The Curse of Oak Island is not short on followers. The mystery and history surrounding the show goes back 200 years, after all. Oak Island gets its fair share of negative reviews, but for some reason, viewers will go right back to it the following week. There’s a certain something that pulls you into the show. It could be the mystery or the storytelling. Whatever it is, Oak Island has a way of making you tune in no matter how much you’ve been let down in the past, and when it comes to this show, letting viewers down is kind of a specialty. Here are five examples of moments when fans were let down, almost expectedly, by The Curse of Oak Island.
When a Spanish coin turned up.
Maybe some people were glad to have just gotten something from the Lagina brothers. Since it took an entire first season just to reveal a find of one coin, it just wasn’t enough. The show had the entire first season to build up the mystery and to get people really enticed about the history of Oak Island and what the brothers might end up finding in the pit. When Season 2 opened up with one Spanish coin, it might have been enough to sustain viewers, but then the show just kept going on about it. There was no reason to because we got the picture, and it was just one coin.
When the next best find turned out to be coconut fiber.
On Season 4, the show built itself up tremendously for finally finding something worthwhile after so many seasons of waiting and waiting. Episode 7 revealed to us that the find is actually nothing more than just coconut fiber. Of course the show reiterates why this is such an important find, but to us who have been patiently watching the Lagina brothers through it all, fiber just didn’t do it. This was a let down of the worse kind because it wasn’t even found during a dig.
Buttons and not much else.
Season 4 closed with a two-hour season finale episode. People usually take two-hour shows as a good sign of something big to happen within the time frame. With the coconut fiber find some episodes before the finale, we all felt as if this might finally be the time when real pirates’ treasures might surface. However, after two hours of work, repetition, flashbacks, flash-forwards, and endless dialogue and narration, the Lagina brothers gave us a button and some metal debris. After 3 seasons, that was the best they could come up with to close up a season.
The repetition is endless.
There’s no particular episode that can be attributed to this. As a matter of fact, every single episode of Oak Island is 75% repetition, and that’s being generous. Given that the show is now in its 5th season, they should really cut back on reiterating the stories behind the curse and flashbacking to previous moments. The show also repeats many of the little advances they may come about in the show, which is not a lot to begin with. There’s just not enough that actually happens on the show to be worthy of talk. It might actually make the show more interesting to watch on mute.
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