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Project Blue Book
2019 · TV series · 44 min episodes · 2 seasons
Created by David O'Leary
Science FictionFantasyMysteryDrama
A chronicle of the true top secret U.S. Air Force-sponsored investigations into UFO-related phenomena in the 1950s and ’60s, known as “Project Blue Book”.
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besides already recommended Fringe, Millennium and Halt and catch fire I enjoyed at same time as X Files in 90s also new Outer Limits, opening credits were great and episodes are always thought challenging, I'm just rewatching it and still enjoy it, though technical quality is horrible since I think FHD was never released
but if you wanna straight up X Files just based on 50s check out Project Blue Book, it's like retro X Files, you won't get closer than that to X Files
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.
As a child I very much enjoyed watching Project Blue Book (called Project UFO in the US) [0]. As I remember the episodes, the investigators would often come up with a rational explanation for the events by the end of the episode, but then just before the credits the viewer would see some piece of evidence the investigators had missed which would throw into doubt the rational explanation, making you wonder if just maybe...
Also enjoyed Arthur C Clarke's Mysterious World [1].
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_U.F.O.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke%27s_Mysterious_World