Here's the deal with Voyage of the Mimi: It embodies all that television should be without caving into some corporate idea of entertainment. In no episode will you find C.T. portrayed as anything other than a fairly typical New England child forced to travel with his Grandfather on a humpback whale expedition. While the episode is broken up into a narrative segment and an instructional segment, I can honestly tell you that growing up in Minnesota I had zero clue of oceanic careers until this show aired on our local PBS channel on weekday mornings. While this show was no where near as landmark as Sesame Street, Mr. Rogers, or 321 Contact for me, it provided an essential method of making basic biology, zoology, and life science compelling for a child. Does it double as a lesson plan for a lazy 6th grade teacher? Maybe. Who cares? The anti-Mimi folks didn't have to work for 30 minutes thereby preparing themselves for a lifetime of hating perfectly banal things. Sad evidence of a society slowing deteriorating. Peace out.
Review of The Voyage of the Mimi
