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Debris
2021 · TV series · 43 min episodes · 1 season
Created by J. H. Wyman
Two federal agents from two different continents, and two different mindsets, must work together to investigate when wreckage from a destroyed alien spacecraft has mysterious effects on humankind.
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Had no idea there was a TV-series in the works. Would love to see that pilot.
Found this video about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoGkB5yvDDk
its imdb page: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5024734/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
There was an NBC TV series in 2021 called Debris, canceled after 1 season, that must have taken some inspiration from Roadside Picnic (at least from what I see in this failed series trailer). It's about 2 federal agents searching for parts of an exploded alien spacecraft. It was your typical "monster of the week" while building up an overarching story. Each piece of the ship would have some unique and crazy affect on the area and/or people around it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris_(TV_series)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11640020/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0
edit:
ah, looks like I'm not the first to notice this connection: https://www.reddit.com/r/Debris/comments/nz6pkl/debris_and_roadside_picnic/
I was open minded about "Debris", but only made it through the first episode and had to stop watching. It was really bad. Just terrible.
However, if anyone out there likes this kind of science fiction, I must highly recommend the 2019 series "Project Blue Book" starring the superb Aidan Gillen (GoT fame) playing the character of J. Allen Hynek.
Unfortunately, this amazing series was canceled after only two seasons, likely due to poor timing, since it was showing during the chaos and uncertainty at the height of the pandemic. But every episode is well written and the acting, for the most part, is really good. Check it out.
One of the things I like most about the Project Blue Book series, is how they try to recreate the 1950s-1960s aesthetic, somewhat following in the footsteps of what "Mad Men" sought to achieve in terms of recreating a bygone era.
Maybe it's like that TV series, Debris?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debris_(TV_series)