Netflix Reboot News?

[themaninblack]

Has anyone heard anything yet on when new episodes are going to be produced? I personally love the reboot! I love what they did with the intro, where they paid homage to Robert Stack!

[ghosthouse]

I know Netflix has always been tight lipped about production and release dates and renewals..but if i had to guess i would say there probably won't be any more new episodes.

The first batch of new episodes seemed to generate a bunch of attention but IDK if the second batch did as much. Netflix is notorious for canceling shows even in the face of much attention.

[Huskerz85]

I haven't heard anything, but wouldn't be surprised at all if there weren't any new episodes. Disregarding posts made here, reaction seems to have been tepid at best.

OTOH, from what I've seen on twitter at least, the new UM podcast has created a fair deal more buzz/excitement.

[freakbook]

Geeze. I completely forgot about the Netflix UM

[sdb4884]

I wonder would Steve French take over as host after his excellent work on the podcast?

[infinityluxe]

They really fumbled this reboot. The episodes were no different than something on ID. They took away all of the elements everyone loved about the original show: compelling host, multiple segments, reenactments, interactive audience. I got through a few episodes and went back to the RS version.

[alistaircranium]

No news isn’t necessarily bad news. For example, production on the Netflix series On My Block Season 4 began weeks before its renewal was officially announced. I only knew because I happened to be searching through the trade magazine Production Weekly. And that renewal came almost a year after its previous season was released.

So it could quietly be in production. Or not. Netflix has also quietly cancelled several series over the past few years without an official announcement (Wu Assassins, Brews Brothers, The Innocents, etc).

Personally, I like the podcast much better and look forward to it every week. It’s a shame no one on this board listens to it or wants to talk about it. I stopped making posts on the podcast here due to lack of interest.

[bell83]

Originally Posted by sdb4884

I wonder would Steve French take over as host after his excellent work on the podcast?

The stoned mountain lion from Trailer Park Boys?

[mphs95]

Originally Posted by alistaircranium

No news isn’t necessarily bad news. For example, production on the Netflix series On My Block Season 4 began weeks before its renewal was officially announced. I only knew because I happened to be searching through the trade magazine Production Weekly. And that renewal came almost a year after its previous season was released.

So it could quietly be in production. Or not. Netflix has also quietly cancelled several series over the past few years without an official announcement (Wu Assassins, Brews Brothers, The Innocents, etc).

Personally, I like the podcast much better and look forward to it every week. It’s a shame no one on this board listens to it or wants to talk about it. I stopped making posts on the podcast here due to lack of interest.

I also enjoy the podcasts. As for this board, it may not be as well known to newer fans of UM, which is why you don't see as many posts about the podcasts. I know that bothers you, but maybe talk about this site in other places, like Twitter? It could get newer fans over here.

[alistaircranium]

Originally Posted by mphs95

I also enjoy the podcasts. As for this board, it may not be as well known to newer fans of UM, which is why you don't see as many posts about the podcasts. I know that bothers you, but maybe talk about this site in other places, like Twitter? It could get newer fans over here.

This board is fairly active. We’re getting new Unsolved Mysteries content every week, and I just find it unusual that no one here wants to discuss it.

[ghosthouse]

I listened to the Lost in the Ashes episode earlier today. It's an interesting story but doesn't really have an Unsolved Mysteries feel, aside from the music. But nothing today will.

[bell83]

Originally Posted by ghosthouse

But nothing today will.

I think this is the important thing for UM fans to remember.

The UM we know is a byproduct of an ENTIRELY different era. Even IF they brought it back exactly as it was (obviously without RS), the discourse would still be that "it sucks."

I don't think it's controversial to say that, almost without exception, everyone here who watched UM in its glory days did so between the ages of 5-20. That's another element that will cloud any attempt to reboot the show in any fashion (as a show, or as a podcast, or whatever other way it might happen).

Bear in mind, I say this as someone who hated the way they did the Farina reboot. I'm not saying I'm above any of that. And I liked Farina. But what they gave him to work with was a truckload of hot garbage juice.

Personally, I liked the Netflix incarnation. I felt it was tastefully done, and I liked that they didn't have a narrator for two reasons.

1) Seriously, how can you fill RS's shoes? You really can't.

2) Everyone wanted a "creepy" host. But the problem with that is the show didn't set out to have a "creepy" host. It just happened because of Stack's deliveries and overall presence. And even with Karl Malden and Raymond Burr, the show was just as great, without a "creepy" host. I think eschewing the choosing of a host was probably the best choice they made in making the Netflix adaptation.

The only problems I really have with the Netflix version is the limited series size, the fact it's released all at once (which is more my dislike of how things are, today, rather than in years past), and that they picked, across the board, cases that are unlikely to ever have a real resolution (other than the French case and maybe one or two others). With the original UM, you'd have a great mix of cases (partly because you had four segments every week for 20-ish weeks).

TLDR; We cry and moan about not getting anything, then when they actually do something, we cry and moan that it's not EXACTLY the same, even though it is completely impossible to get EXACTLY the same UM, due to time frame and nostalgic bias.

[TJ]

They are filming new episodes.

Crew to film 'Unsolved Mysteries' episode in South Haven
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/comm...9ebab179c.html

[Gottacallphelp]

Originally Posted by TJ

They are filming new episodes.

Crew to film 'Unsolved Mysteries' episode in South Haven
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/comm...9ebab179c.html

Great news!!!

[alistaircranium]

Originally Posted by TJ

They are filming new episodes.

Crew to film 'Unsolved Mysteries' episode in South Haven
https://www.heraldpalladium.com/comm...9ebab179c.html

That’s great news! A shame the article is behind a paywall, though.

Hopefully they have listened to fan feedback and this new season will be an improvement over last year’s.