If you’re ready to learn more about this show, here is the Cunk on Earth ending explained for you. Starring Diane Morgan as Philomena Cunk, this series is a collaboration between Netflix and BBC. The show consists of five episodes ranging from 25-30 minutes each and is directed by Christian Watt. It also stars experts like Douglas Hedley, Shirley J. Thompson, Nigel Spivey, Ashley Jackson, Jim Al-Khalili, John Man, and Ruth Adams.
Cunk on Earth Ending Explained
We start off by looking at the beginnings of the planet. The caveman drawings and our evolution go from beings who walk on four legs to upright humans who have no use for their feet anymore. Philomena explores how we all started as hunters and gatherers trying to make an everyday living by killing animals, more specifically cows. As our enmity with cows gets smaller, our dependence on agriculture increases. We are now fully functional civilised human beings who have created cities and the meaning of civilisation itself.
Philomena discovers that math is actually a grievous invention of travel. When the wheel was invented, people could travel places and count what amount of land was theirs. And this invention of math gave birth to writing. We see Philomena talk about Cuneiform with one of the experts and how it essentially blew the world right wide open. This gave birth to philosophers and hieroglyphics. She discovers the Egyptians’ obsession with death and the ability to be resurrected.
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She uses stories of her personal life to speak of theatre and tragedies while also exploring how international sports came into being. Every once in a while, she will say something non-technical and the expert will answer that question in earnest, validating her opinions. She then moves on to speak about religion and its place in history. How it came from a place to establish harmony and a sense of community but didn’t work that way.
The Romans fought with the Catholics, who got into a tussle with the Muslims. Religion was supposed to be a bringer of peace, however, things got really bad when the missionaries started to take their learnings outside of their country. It is shortly after this when the Dark Ages came, people went through a downtime in their intelligence, which the expert disagreed with. However, this ushered in the Age of Enlightenment and the Renaissance.
This rebirth was a time of cultural and political revolution (and not about sauces). There were people who used the guillotine to kill off their monarchs and declare independence over the rich people trying to tax them out of their money. Other places had scientific discoveries that Philomena was surprised to hear weren’t really aligned with religion, and tried to question experts whether that worked.
Additionally, the printing press came into fashion at this time, and according to her, people were taking too long to write these books, so they had to reuse some old material. Even though the Chinese had invented printing way before Gutenberg did, many did not acknowledge that invention. At this time, colonies were waking up from the slumber that was slavery.
Even though the Declaration of Independence was signed, slaves were not privy to this information, leading to a civil war. The North wins, leading Abraham Lincoln to become the president of the United States of America. The new age was being ushered in, and Philomena Cunk is here to break it down for us. Beethoven, with the music and Ford, with his new cars, things were starting to get better in the West.
The Industrial revolution is in full swing, and perhaps, the bulb is not as great of an invention as everyone thinks it is. They had the sun in the day and the candles in the night, we didn’t need the bulbs. While tanks, weapons and other machines became a large part of the conflict, we had film and television ready to entertain us, going from silent to sound in no time.
However, Henry Ford was here to make waves and essentially give birth to the capitalistic system that Cunk says has made us miserable. However, the communist agenda was gaining followers in the east, including the UUSR. Now, America and the USSR have engaged in proxy wars, trying to figure out whose ideology is the best. While normal people don’t understand what it is happening with the rest of the world, America and the Soviet Union are silently beefing.
Philomena Cunk explores the moon landing and how that affected the human mindset about climate change. Hippies turned into scientists in white coats, but we have yet to care about it. In the meantime, technology has zoomed right past us, with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs going neck to neck in creating lasting products that would run for generations to come.
While it is entirely possible that we are all made up and live in a simulation, Cunk is here to tell us all about this simulated space rock in Cunk on Earth. She is tasked with uncovering the secrets of this planet we all live in/on, and she will do her best at it.
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