3. How the States Got Their Shapes
Site score 9, IMDb score 9; Overall score= 18
Directed by David Konschnik, Amber Engelmann and others
Year: 2011
Some states’ borders look suspiciously like a kid drawing a line with a ruler and then accidentally running the pencil over his fingers. The show, based on the book with the same title by Mark Stein, follows the host Brian Unger as he travels across the US trying to explain how the state lines were drawn and why they look like they do. Unger also discusses proposed states that never happened like State of Lincoln or State of Jefferson. He also goes into proposed state partitions. The show has 30 episodes, divided into two seasons.
