Netflix reboots the classic Robert Stack-hosted, re-enactment-heavy true crime franchise without Robert Stack. Read THR's TV review for 'Unsolved Mysteries:'
is, "Why bother?" This new incarnation has almost none of what made the original memorable, substituting generic cases and limited style in stories that are too dull for a miniseries and too meekly investigated for a newsmagazine.would probably be more appropriately titledUnsolved Mysteries
Then, for good measure, there's 39 minutes of people remembering their encounter with aliens in the Berkshires 50 years ago. Yes, aliens. That was always part of thecharm: that they could go from very serious cold cases to supernatural nonsense in the blink of an eye and everything seemed to fit together tonally and structurally. Here, that's not the case.
It invariably feels mean to criticize installments here as "uninteresting," because they all still feature loved ones wrecked by these life-changing tragedies. But two or three of the mysteries barely feel justified in taking up 10 minutes of screen time, and the ones that are more engaging feel like they've had their stories badly told. In that category, I point to the fourth episode about a murder in Kansas that everybody is convinced was a hate crime.
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