In Search Of… S03E02 Tornadoes
Disaster porn is a fairly minor theme in In Search Of… but it’s always well done. Whatever else you can say about the show, they
Steampunk, Frankenstein, Fantasy soap operas, Leonard Nimoy and More
Disaster porn is a fairly minor theme in In Search Of… but it’s always well done. Whatever else you can say about the show, they
Some children in white night-robes run, panicked, into their mother. A hunter encounters a mysterious figure. Nimoy assures us that these people were alien abductees,
We start with some very 1970sy models playing Adam and Eve. We don’t see them much below the neck, so the nudity is only implied.
A figure in cold weather gear staggers through a blizzard. Nimoy’s stentorian voice cuts across the soft whoosh of the wind to tell us that
Cold open on… ants! A bunch of ants… Is that the correct collective noun? Maybe it’s ‘flock’ of ants? ‘Gaggle’ of ants? Anyway, Leonard Nimoy
We open – to my surprise – on a few seconds of footage from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Wouldn’t have thought
Open on a moustachioed 1970s-guy, who’s playing with a film camera. He’s investigator Francis Hitchins, and Nimoy tells us he may have recorded the last
Witch Doctors. So the title makes me cringe, but let’s check out the episode. Could go either of two ways. We open on a Mayan
A woman in a white robe walks on the beach while Nimoy narrates the basics of the Iliad. Helen, stolen away, the Greek army comes
Damn I love this series. Last episode: swamp monster. Next episode: Troy. This episode: hypnosis. The modern successors of In Search Of… are multiple season