UFO Cowboys

A person can NOT not know this is fake af from the trailer. That doesn't mean it can't be entertaining but like others I'm kinda annoyed it's listed as "reality". Even though we all know "reality" ain't reality...when you have someone in a "reality" show completely surprised by X person showing up at their door WHEN THEY ARE BEING FILMED BY 5 PEOPLE it's not "reality". That said their are now differing levels of reality whereas on my scale anyway at the very bottom are the bad ghost hunter shows. Yet even those aren't just blatent blatent fake. It's hard to describe but ya'll know what I'm gettin at.

It's a case of semantics, why they couldn't have called it something else or just plain leave out the classification I don't know but judging by the reviews they've just hurt themselves instead of being crafty.. People don't appreciate it, I don't appreciate it and I'll be damned if I know why but it's annoying.

All that said again, I got something out of it by learning of the creators other project "Mountain Monsters" through this show, I'd never heard of it and it's hilarious.

Long story short the cast IMO just doesn't work like Mountain Monsters and one thing I've learned in 1/2 century CASTING CASTING CASTING. Casting doesn't mean person A is a bad actor Casting means Person A as Person B doesn't work with Person C as Person D and so on. Sometimes you get a cast that jells totally sometimes a little and sometimes it just doesn't work.

This is the latter sadly for me and the other stupid thing of labeling it's a no.

This is more like a Blair Witch filming. NONE of it appears real, the editor had to use over whelming camera tricks to make it appear scary. If it was truly a reality program, there isn't any need for all the camera trickery.

What is the point of trying to claim it is a reality show when the producer / editor has to use an overwhelming amount of camera tricks and site set-ups. They have lights that appear, noises, even had one actor appear to be possessed. They even went so far as use a triangle symbol in the script, but the producers assume the public is stupid. In one of the flash backs they made the painted triangle on the pigs head darker and clearer than it was in the first scene it was shown.

If they are really investigating UFO / aliens you would think they would have / use specialized equipment besides a supposed geiger counter and a supposed thermo-viewer which looks more like a Harbor Freight laser thermometer.

Then you have theses clowns riding around on horses. Why do horses wear blinders? Because they spook easily. They can do better. If you're tired of watching paint dry or grass growing, instead of watching UFO Cowboys; you'd be better off just watching NOTHING.

It actually kinda bothered me off that they are presenting this as a reality show while staging goofy crap like one of the cowboys being grabbed and flung backward by what we are to assume is an alien when they walk through crop circles to... "investigate".

Possibly the worst show I've ever seen- if you thought TIGER KING or DUCK DYNASTY were intolerable, wait until you get stuck in the swamp with the UFO COWBOYS who are even more delusional and embarrassing than the aforementioned.

My boyfriend was amused, but I wasn't in the slightest. Not only is the presentation cheesy and unimaginative, but shockingly, I also found it kind of pretentious in a bizarre way and worst of all it's deceptive and if you've got people who believe that the Democratic Party performs satanic rituals with babies in the basement of a pizza shop, you better believe somebody will watch this and take what they're saying seriously.

How could this show improve? It desperately needs a outsiders perspective - a fact checker, a narrator, a host who isn't a self proclaimed "ufo cowboy".

Mountain Monsters is easily the best and most authentic Bigfoot/Alien/Cryptid/Ghost show ever made. Nothing about it was meant to be taken seriously and the boys seemed to be having a good time playing an adult version of hide and go seek out in the woods at night chasing fairy tales. Unfortunately, lead actor "Trapper" passed away and the show ended. This show attempts to recreate the magic of Mountain Monsters by relocating out west and changing the hunt from Cryptids to Aliens.

We're introduced to the cast the same way Mountain Mobsters did it: the Leader, the Rookie, etc. None have strong personalities and it's easy to confuse which guy playing cowboy dress up is which. And cowboy dress up they play: cowboys from the old west. We're talking ten gallon hats, chaps, the whole costume. They ride horses for some reason. They carry six shooters and lever action prop rifles. It's like they walked off the set of Cowboys vs Aliens. None of this is appropriate or necessary for what they do. It's only there to dupe you into believing these actors are cowboys.

Not that cowboys possess any special knowledge or skills useful for a UFO hunt. Quite the opposite I should think.

The plots are the usual debunked "mysteries": crop circles, cattle mutilations, alien possessions, etc. All appropriate for a fun guys-night-out in the woods trying to scare each other. Too bad what's missing from this show is the fun. Where the Mountain Mobsters crew were clearly enjoying themselves, this lot seems embarrassed to be there and just want to go home.

I have it five stars more for the memory of Mountain Monsters than for what this show actually is, which is not good. Five stars.

Watching this video I feel like either I need to lose intelligence to understand what they are doing, because every time they say we should not be out here at night, then the next scene is the next night, and of course they are out there by night. Is it because viewers will have an atavistic fear of what they can't see? Well they certainly dramatize the hell out of that with video that flashes from one scene to another, with lights flashing, and low frequency and high frequency sound effects worked into the sound track. Of course they are also doing that in the day time shoots, with limited camera angles and cuts from one chase scene to the next to get adrenaline worked up. If they were trying like heck to dramatizing nonsense so no-one could make heads or tails of what is happening then they achieved that, "With Bells On". They should be embarrassed.