Dark Skies: The Complete Series [DVD]

Watched this as a kid and nowhere stream it that I could see, reasonable price. It is not filmed in widescreen though, filmed in the classic square format. Great storyline and very entertaining, absolutely great spin on history.

This was a very good television series from the late 1990's about UFOs and the JFK assassination.It focuses mostly on two main characters a man who escapes from a special group who hide the truth about UFOs from the public,and a woman who works for some sort of newspaper company.All the episodes are more or less the same where they put the two main characters in jeopardy from the secret group called majestic 12.Later on in the series,the girlfriend gets abducted by aliens called the hive.This TV series is a little bit similar to the X -Files TV show,which was running around the same time,but the dark skies TV show was set mostly in the 1960's. I believe they did plan on making a third season of this TV series,but company who made it choose not to renew it.It has loads of supernatural elements to the episodes too.I think this was one of the last performances from J.T. Walsh who died a few years after this. If you are over 30 you probably would of watched this TV series when it was screen on channel 4 in the late 90's!

The reviews were so good, I thought I'd give it a try, but I am somewhat disappointed. Mulder and Scully it ain't! The special effects are very good, there's a refreshing lack of excessive cgi, and the aliens are perfectly acceptable. But somehow there is a lack of excitement, no real tension, no charisma between the two leads: in fact, the girl is so bland and expressionless that every time she changed hairstyles, I thought it was a different actress. And the boy, despite the side parting, wears all his clothes like a nineties man.In fact, I think that's what disappointed me about the show, the fact that it was set in the 60s. Maybe an american audience can soak up the retro style? And certainly the use of old footage, and the blending of new footage from b/w into colour, was very well done. But somehow I couldn't "engage" with the whole 60s thing.Usually, I love watching boxed sets because you can really get "into" the show, I feel that the binge-watch experience is much closer to that of the people involved in it, the actors and production teams, in that they spend months at a time non-stop writing/pre-production/rehearsing/filming/editing and really "live" the show. As opposed to us, waiting a whole week between instalments. But this show - it just didn't grip me.Reading some of the other reviews, possibly I have reached the mid-season dip of which several reviewers spoke: at the moment I am not likely to continue any further, and it's very rare for me to dislike a sci-fi show. I don't really dislike this one, it has just failed to interest me.In my opinion, people read these reviews for two reasons: either a) they already know the show and just want technical info, ie extras, quality of transfer, packaging, delivery etc, or b) they don't already know the show, in which case they want reasons to buy or reasons to avoid, preferably with sensible comments such as "if you liked X then you will like/dislike this".So, in the interests of people thinking about buying this show - I love X-files, SG-1. Firefly, Grimm, Andromeda, Buffy, Angel, Warehouse 13 (not impressed with Librarians, won't be buying that), Sanctuary, Torchwood, Bones: and I found this show a bit meh. I hope that might help someone else who does not know the show to make their decision.

Originally aired in the mid-90's this UFO/Aliens romp has retained its charming B-movie quirkiness and daft pseudo-historical plotlines, as the lead characters roam over 60's America righting wrongs while fighting bug-infested 'Greys' and shadowy government agencies.Eric Close plays John Loengard, who channels Spooky Mulder with lines like "There's a reality out there most people never see, once they do, life's never the same." He even manages to keep a straight face when people spout lines like "John, he's a person, that's a fish" or "How could all those dead fish be part of a plan ?". The gorgeous Megan Ward (the only reason I watched it first time around) plays Kim Sayer, Loengard's dissatisfied girlfriend, who really just wants the aliens to bog off so she can have the family and white picket fence. JT Walsh provides some much-needed backbone as the gruff and ruthless head of Majestic 12, while Tim Kelleher dials the pantomime villainy up to 12 with his evil-eyed, Hive-infected Jim Steele.Highlights are "The Last Wave", where Kim and John endure a Nietszche-spouting Jim Morrison, and "Dark Days Night", with a Beatles depiction that inspires one cast member to launch themselves off a balcony. At times it's so bad, it goes through good and comes right back round to bad, but thanks to its lead players, it never loses its charm.