Reboot trailer
Well, we have a trailer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oZ4FrgGILM8
At least they kept the original theme music, albeit updated. Way better than what they did with the awful Denis Farina revival. That intro seemed like it belonged to an extreme sports show....
shareYeah, for sure. The Denis Farina episodes were completely awful. The set that they used made the show feel more like America's Most Wanted or something similar than it did Unsolved Mysteries. All the Farina episodes can be burned in a fire as far as I'm concerned.
As I was just saying in the other thread, I basically find two things to be of concern with the reboot:
1. No host. I want a host. He needs to be a GOOD host, but I still want a host, and as long as he's sufficiently creepy I can accept that it's not Robert Stack.
2. Only one case per episode. While it might be nice to be able to dive deeper into each individual case, that is simply not the UM formula. I always liked the variety of the original show and am disappointed they decided to go in a different direction with the reboot.
But still, as long as it's actually well-produced and the stories are interesting, I have hope that I'll like it. I sent the trailer to a friend of mine and, based on the trailer, he predicted that the show will be a hit.
I'm willing to give the new format a shot. I love the original, but I understand that format may not work today.
I'm really nervous about the no host or narrator thing though.
Obviously the visual look and re-enactment style would have to be updated. But other than that, I'm not really sure what about the original format wouldn't work in 2020.
My concern here is that this is just going to feel like a generic modern mystery/crime show with little to tie it into the Unsolved Mysteries tradition beyond a theme song and the fact that it deals with a variety of mysteries that are as of yet unsolved.
Another thing that concerns me is that the reboot seems to be leaning heavily in the direction of true crime. I hope the producers understand that many viewers will be wanting a good variety of tales, like the original series gave us.
And as you say, I really think it would work better with a host. Having a host, to me, is part of the UM formula and is something that really distinguishes UM from other series in the same genre.
I don't know. From the titles, it seems like we're getting a decent mix of mystery categories. That part, at least, seems right to me.
Mystery on the Rooftop
13 Minutes
House of Terror
No Ride Home
Berkshire UFO
Missing Witness
Here are the actual descriptions.
Obviously we have a UFO story. I think I heard something about one of the others possibly being a ghost story.
Mystery on the Rooftop: The dead body of a newlywed is found in a Baltimore Hotel eight days after he disappeared.
13 Minutes: A local hairdresser disappears in daylight, leaving behind her teenage son.
House of Terror: A French man's wife is found buried under the porch of their home.
No Ride Home: A 23-year-old never returned home from a party he attended with friends in a rural Kansas town.
Berkshire's UFO: Residents of the Massachusetts town are convinced they saw a UFO in 1969.
Missing Witness: When a stepdaughter confesses to helping her mother dispose of her stepfather's body, she suddenly disappears.
Oh man. I was hoping House of Terror was a ghost story....
shareIt could still be. I did read somewhere that one of them was a ghost story.
Even if it is, I still think this demonstrates that the show is going to heavily lean into true crime, with other kinds of episodes just sprinkled in here and there.
I could do without the UFO stories since I don´t believe in them anymore. Just please no "lost loves". lol
shareI think that UFOs are a distinct possibility--there's more than enough evidence to at least be open to the idea--so I'd be quite disappointed if there were no UFO stories.
It appears that lost loves are a thing of the past. It seems hard to believe that any of those stories could support an entire episode anyway.