Picks and Pans Review: Arctic Kingdom: Life at the Edge

By Joe Queenan

UPDATED 05/13/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 05/13/1996 at 01:00 AM EDT

NBC (Wed., May 15, 8 p.m. ET)

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Nineteen times out of 20, a polar bear fails to catch the seal it's stalking. But when it succeeds, look out. The visuals are breathtaking in this National Geographic special about the struggle for survival in the far North, but, as is usually the case with Mother Nature, not for the squeamish.