was afraid this would just be a wealth porn reality show of _hey look at the weird out-of-touch-with-reality ultra-wealthy and their gaudy rich people shit_ (and there is a fair amount of that) but it also weaves in the UAE/Dubai's geohistorical rise along with a look at various types of people living in the city (most often skewing towards the ultra-wealthy) to make it consistently watchable throughout its three 60-minute episodes on the whole it does play a bit like a travel campaign for the city (admittedly at times I thought about career moves I could make to move to the city and live the life of the ex-pat) and only obliquely and occasionally touches on things that don't paint the city in a positive up-and-coming light The first episode followed some of the low-wage service workers in the city and I wish we could've seen more of those type of interviewees throughout the series. Also wanted them to step just a little bit outside of the ex-pat-dominated city/vacation hot spots to parts where the Emiratis outnumber ex-pats and get a sense of how the rise of UAE/Dubai has affected those parts & population (though I get that isn't gonna be the focus of a show with the subtitle _"Playground of the Rich"_)

are they human ? they act like aliens or a completely different specie