Mysteries Decoded

Started watching with Roswell and was pretty intrigued. Most of the episodes have been really good and I like that the host looks at different angles. Shes tough with some of the guests but I guess thats what detectives do so it makes sense.

PLEASE look into Rendlesham and do an episode on this because I dont think anyone else could be honest about what happened there.PLEASE.

I'm often frustrated with these types of shows as they dramatically enhance events to make good TV, but this host is a bit different and she wants to understand the science behind things and is somewhat sceptical which I like. She tries to give a view from both sides.

Not only jumped it, rocketed over the cattle-mutilated mystery shark-shaped apparition in a top secret military paranormal ghost time-traveling alien spacecraft.

Season one was an intelligent revisit to the kinds of "mysteries" that have kept Ancient Aliens on the air for eighteen seasons. The host would visit these "mysteries" and debunk them through a combination of common sense and logical reasoning. It was intelligent.

Intelligence is in short supply these days and this show used up its allotment, so late in Season one and now in Season two the show started treating the audience with contempt by presenting as fact the standard "mystery" tripe: baseless claims, wishful thinking, honest mistakes, and the usual gang of say-anything-for-a-buck pseudo-experts with made up qualifications the producers of these kinds of shows have on speed dial.

Eight stars for season one up until the final few episodes where they started pairing the once credible Jennifer with a deluded believer in whatever they were investigating. No stars for season two, which is an embarrassingly forced cartoony rehash of Ancient Alien Skinwalker Ranch Ghost Adventure Scooby Doo. The average is four stars, so, four stars.

Ugh, nothing new to see here, folks. Two thirds of the show is re-stating history and stories and one third is the detective with some rando sensitive person that rarely does anything to further the investigation and usually just slows it down. She is good about not jumping onto seeming connections and conspiracy theories, but it is just not enough with a sea of these shows out there. There are youtube series that are more informative than this and offer some sort of new information most of the time.

Jennifer Marshall seems very objective. She asks good questions and doesn't just accept everything. Some of the past series like this seem to abhor skepticism over enthusiastic acceptance of anything with shock value. Her measured approach is refreshing.