"La Ruta"

Talk about the TV & film  industry product

I really like the TV series, but the ones who treat about humanity matters, like documentaries or journalist reports. Since I was in 6th grade I got used to watch many documentaries like "La Ruta (of)..." from Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) with the journalist and anthropologist Ricardo Astorga, I really loved to see new landscapes and cultures recorded with a first person camera. Also, I liked the feeling that a Chilean was recording all those adventures, not just an international reporter from the US or Europe. 

I think the genre is a mix of documentary and travel, also a little bit of adventure inside big jungles, the highest mountains or in the last corner of the earth. The series last for 8 seasons with more than 10 chapters, each one, and ten countries visited by Astorga and company.

The cast was always composed by Ricardo Astorga, who was also the director of the documentary, and another woman, like an actress or a TV entertainer. 

The reception from people I think was good, of course, in Chile we aren't use to watch educational television, and less if its not a silly cartoon from united states. So, I don't think the expectations were the best, regarding that at that time, during the early 21 century, the internet wasn't so massive, so not a lot of people could go on the website to watch the beautiful landscapes that were recorded in "La Ruta". 

I still think it was a really nice tv series because it shows how people live in a remote part of the world not just threw the news, it was about showing the feelings of that person, wild animals or environment.