Files of the Unexplained

Instead addressing mysteries it's lectures on social justice especially the Myrtle's. It frequently turns into a word salad of all the buzz words of the social woes of the south.

Beyond that it drags, ideas are repeated frequently. Each episode has enough content to occupy about 5 minutes that they stretch into 40 minutes.

Lots of TikTok videos about the focus of the episode. Is that your source? Because we all know social media is the go to source for accurate and verified information.

Also, the Lake Lanier episode does as great job of lumping all of us Natives into one homogenous group who only have one thought, one speak and one voice. Tired of the same old trope of Indian deaths produce ghost stories. Ridiculous. Insulting. Garbage.

The unexplained subject is not hard to delve into in show form . Unsolved mysteries with Robert Stack and more recently the unexplained series with William Shatner prove that. Those shows are on a level of their own with intriguing hosts that hold the whole thing together and amazing lot detailed accounts and research. The interviews feel real and not staged by paid actors. This show feels like it's a bunch of paid average joes recounting their dull recounts of unexplained phenomena with even more uninteresting lack of research and attention holding content . This show is like watching paint dry.

Boring stories told by a world weary or simply lacklustre narrator, I've watched some real rubbish on netflix but this takes the biscuit and tramples it into the ground.

There are dozens of this type of show but they are well made and interesting this isn't I fell asleep during the first episode and struggled to keep.y eyes open during the second, I suppose it might be good for insomniacs it certainly helped me sleep.

Decent shows get sidelined while rubbish like this exists, why?

I pray they won't have a second season of this mindnumbingly boring hogwash, it's an insult to the men who passed away in the minibus R. I. P.

These series have a nice title and decent thumbnail and that's it.

Looks like it was made in a hurry. Like creators had two good stories and added a few terrible ones just to fill the series quota as fast as possible.

To me personally the worst part is that woman's voice narration in an annoying ,,housewifes series,, style. Like she's literally trying to bore viewers out of their minds. Just so unfitting.

It doesn't deserve to be even close to Unsolved Mysteries to which everyone is comparing it to.

I have to say I wouldn't recommend watching this.

Oh and also the direction is very bad (lots of missing information, nonconsistency..).

Absolutely terrible.

Take a few opinions, find some material from Facebook / Instagram that supports the 'fact' you want to frame as sensational, add an interview from an emotional victim and we have 'Files of the Unexplained'.

If this is the standard for Netflix documentaries I'm not sure I'll bother with any more.

Evident with every episode that no effort has been taken to fact check the material presented by partisan 'experts'. Some old police records are taken as fact, some or not but no real explanation as to why, except for a talking head saying 'I think this...' or 'I think that...'. For a 'documentary' there is an alarming lack of scrutiny.

This is probably the worst TV I have seen in 2024. Maybe this decade...