"Hellier" - recommended documentary series
Posted: Sun Dec 01, 2019 1:26 am
WARNING ADDED ON REQUEST FROM OP
ORIGINAL POST
I generally watch television with an eye towards turning it off - just looking for an excuse to walk away. This one stymied me.
Part of that is just the classic Zegarnik effect mechanics of narrative storytelling, the drip-drop of tantalizing facts and questions. However, most of it was the quality of the production and the quality of the investigators. The series is essentially an update on the Hopkinsville encounter that quickly expands into a tour of Tau Allan Greenfield's work and the life of John Keel. This encompasses cryptids, UFOlogy, synchronicity and the occult. To the extent there are boundaries separating those fields, right? It's earnest and the sensationalizing is mercifully minimal.
The investigators use interesting methods, often consider the possibility they're being hoaxed, and they're mighty darn polite to all the subjects they encounter -- they're so endearing, really, you'd be insane to trust them, and I don't. But I still highly recommend it to everyone here.
I also have that old timey feeling that all of this bullshit is about to start reaching into my daily life again now that I'm engaging with it again. I almost welcome it. It's encouraging to remember that, beneath the accretions of bullshit and hoax, there is a genuine phenomenon to contend with.
Wombaticus Rex » Sat Dec 21, 2019 7:11 pm wrote:A pity it's too late to edit the OP -- they repeatedly show hypnotic inductions and even do an evocation of pan in the S2 season finale. Definitely keep the mute button handy, or have fun taking risks.
ORIGINAL POST
I generally watch television with an eye towards turning it off - just looking for an excuse to walk away. This one stymied me.
Part of that is just the classic Zegarnik effect mechanics of narrative storytelling, the drip-drop of tantalizing facts and questions. However, most of it was the quality of the production and the quality of the investigators. The series is essentially an update on the Hopkinsville encounter that quickly expands into a tour of Tau Allan Greenfield's work and the life of John Keel. This encompasses cryptids, UFOlogy, synchronicity and the occult. To the extent there are boundaries separating those fields, right? It's earnest and the sensationalizing is mercifully minimal.
The investigators use interesting methods, often consider the possibility they're being hoaxed, and they're mighty darn polite to all the subjects they encounter -- they're so endearing, really, you'd be insane to trust them, and I don't. But I still highly recommend it to everyone here.
I also have that old timey feeling that all of this bullshit is about to start reaching into my daily life again now that I'm engaging with it again. I almost welcome it. It's encouraging to remember that, beneath the accretions of bullshit and hoax, there is a genuine phenomenon to contend with.