Strong and Moving!

Excellent, smart action film.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

We loved this show. We looked forward to every episode that came out and have watched them numerous times. We are not huge skate fans but find that it doesn't detract from the show. We love the way the stories of the abandoned places was told. How about a second season...if anyone is listening.

Quality productions, interesting subjects, thoroughly enjoyable. No Hollywood-style trickery and nonsense. Informative and non-judgemental. Sometimes sad, sometimes uplifting. A testament to folly and waste. Might not be popular with patriotic Americans. Thanks SBS Australia and Viceland. More quality documentaries like this please.

The tag line for Abandoned on the Viceland web site is: "Skateboarder Rick McCrank explores abandoned places with the people who love them long after the lights have gone out." However, the show is a lot more than this.This is a powerful and poetic TV series. Rick goes to abandoned places - shopping malls, houses, towns, race tracks, etc - and reminisces with people who went to the places and enjoyed them in their hey day and lament their loss. Often these people are still looking after, protecting, or at least keeping an eye on and witnessing the destruction caused brainless vandals. Sometimes these people are speaking out and trying to save the place today before it deteriorates beyond the point of no return.And then Rick magnificently enjoys the place one final time - sometimes as it is being torn down around him - by skating around the place, and performing amazing skateboard tricks.By skating around the place, Rick helps the place "go with music" - going out with one final bang, one final celebration of what it once was. An approach very close to my heart.And at the end of each episode, a superbly fitting song is played while showing highlights and close ups of key people from the episode.Songs I have never heard before, by artists I have never heard of - and every song has fitted the video perfectly. I love each episode and each song ! Amazingly powerful and moving.I think this is easily the best thing on TV. Only 4 episodes have been on my local TV so far, but I have watched each episode about 5 times now. Can't wait for the next episode each week.And I enjoy tracking down the names and artists for the songs used in the wind up and ending credits of each episode.Moose O'Malley, Australia

I initially started watching this, thinking that National Geographic's Abandoned series from 2012 was playing reruns. Turned out to be another pseudo-Urbex series by the same title.The episode description for episode 1, Ghost Mall, stated that the focus of the episode was abandoned malls. What you actually got was pure ADHD, jumping back & forth between abandoned buildings & & people goofing off in skate parks, mostly it was just skate parks. Urbex is supposed to be about things like the futility of man's desire to achieve immortality through architecture that doesn't stand the test of time, embracing the desolation of evacuated ruins, wondering what it held inside & who was in it, & about untouched time capsules that remind us of our past. This show throws all of that out the window & focuses on people going on with their daily lives & repurposing abandoned spaces; stuff no urbex fans want to see.