Wonderful character development!

Simply Perfect

I wanted to but couldn't!

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Typical Gold Rush fare, but on a minute scale! Let me put it this way, these guys make the Kellys look like Einsteins. After what could be months(you can't really tell) they only have 2 oz of gold? There's a 73 year old that nearly dies EVERYTIME he dives.There's his prick son, who despite ALLEGEDLY owing Todd Hoffman $50,000, likes to basically say "F him" while holding a pistol. There's an ex Military "expert" diver whose third choice to dive? My feeling is this was all shot in couple of weeks, not months. Why? Unless everybody is suffering from Fetal Alcohol syndrome, they'd have quit after just a few weeks of not finding more than what cub scouts could have panning. They keep showing you the whole take and it doesn't look like it's even grown since the first time? Typical, all of a sudden, it looks like they'll(in the finale) miraculously find JUUUUUSSST ENOUGH gold to make them want to try another season.

This show could be an 8, 9 easily, just on its own merit, but the whiney, petulant, pouting, baby Dustin is a terrible distraction.I know that Todd and Parker, and lately even Tony Beets have participated in unnecessary scripted soap opera nonsense in the "Gold Rush" series, but it's too bad they introduced it here, too.If Dustin is behaving so badly - rude and so incredibly disrespectful to his father, moping around with a defeatist, impatient attitude *like a child*... if it's not done his way he does everything he can to make someone else's idea fail...if he's behaving like this because the show's producers asked him to, just to get a bit of drama in the show, shame on him! That makes it just as bad as if it is *not* scripted! What a goof!I'll give it a charitable 5, because the other members of the crew, including dad, are so interesting to watch and listen to.Note to the producers - if you want drama, put Dustin to work for Parker, and quit ruining this show!

This series was pretty entertaining (although Dustin has become a jerk) but does anyone else think the $50K loan was just a scripted plot device that Discovery used as an excuse for Todd to make guest appearances, add drama, and boost ratings? One reason I say this is because I don't get the worker that Todd sent to "observe" (forgot his name)... are we supposed to assume that Todd was paying him to work for Fred? That doesn't make any sense. Second, they only seem to talk about the $50k loan during occasional (what feel like) scripted segments. It felt like the director would show up and say "today we are going to shoot the scenes where you are worried about the loan". Since both Todd and Tony showed up it the series, it's not hard for me to believe that Discovery had a script for Parker to show up too but it either got cut out or Parker refused to do it.

I have never written a review to any tv show in my life but after watching the latest episode of white water, I had to set up an account and leave a review of what I think was a horrible behavior (I'm been polite here) by Dustin. What happened to you from Porcupine times to turn you into this hater, egocentric maniac that speaks to people or better yet, to employees, the way that you do? I know better, no one does it better or how I wanted, no patience for anyone! I felt bad for you in the past while now you are coming accross as petulant know it all overgrown child. Shame on you for doing this to someone after it was done to you and knowing what it feels like. Between you and me... treat me like that and you might have ended up in the fire pit. Douche. Besides that, love the show. Fred it's coming along great. Keep it up.