Fly Guys
By Melissa Camacho,
Common Sense Media Reviewer
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Fun action series highlights stunts, science, and smarts.
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What's the Story?
FLY GUYS is a Facebook series that follows a team of men who like building extreme stunts and then trying them out. The group consists of engineers, students, and builders who enjoy a good adrenaline rush but use math and science to develop their stunts. Once they dream up a specific trick to be performed somewhere in the world, the team goes to their Ljubljana, Slovenia, headquarters to work on the calculations necessary for designing and building the necessary parts needed to perform the stunt correctly and safely. After a series of tests using a dummy, the men continue to test and perfect the trick in hopes of performing the larger-than-life stunts in an epic manner.
Is It Any Good?
This jovial series underscores the idea that stunt work requires smarts, some risk-taking, and lots of bravery. Lots of entertaining scenes feature people flying hundreds of feet over a lake or jumping over a moving train, but most of the series is dedicated to showing how the guys devise, build, and test the stunts before actually performing them.
The team has a sense of humor, and it's clear that they enjoy what they do. But they take the work that goes into creating these stunts very seriously, and are socially responsible when approaching it. To this end, Fly Guys continuously reminds viewers that stunt work isn't about taking dumb chances, but about being intelligent in the way you think, build, and perform.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about the role science and engineering play in the creation and success of stunt work. What kinds of things have to be worked out in order to launch people safely through the air?
Fly Guys highlights the importance of science and safety, but the stunts still require them to take risks. Is this a good thing?
TV Details
- Premiere date: February 2, 2018
- Network: Facebook Watch
- Genre: Reality TV
- Topics: Science and Nature
- Character Strengths: Perseverance, Teamwork
- TV rating: NR
- Last updated: February 27, 2022
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