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Quincy M.E.: Next Stop, Nowhere (1982)
Unintentional hilarity
I'm giving this a 10 just on the unintentional comedy this episode displays. It really needs to go down in the pantheon of exploitive nonsense mainstream entertainment tries to foist upon a public that doesn't know any better.
I can only compare this episode of the "squares" dealing with a sub-culture that they don't understand and therefore fear to the infamous Dragnet episode known as "Blue Boy" that deals with hippies and LSD. Both have parallels of middle-aged, square white men addressing youth sub-cultures that they can't and won't be able to understand.
The episode starts with a murder at a fictional concert performed by the fictional punk band Mayhem. The writers, performers and director of the show have absolutely no clue of what the punk scene was about. The episode starts off on a bad foot and never, ever goes beyond a hyped-up, sensationalistic and obviously biased view of what the L.A. punk scene was about. Of course Qunicy learns of the horrific goings-on in the punk rock scene that it obviously written by someone who doesn't know any better.
Ironically, the same time that this episode came out, the L.A. police were very busy busting heads, breaking up any and all punk shows in the greater L.A. metro area. Who were the violent ones?
Uncovering Aliens (2013)
Pure Hokum
Of the latest batch of UFO related shows, this is the absolute worst. Sensationalistic, unscientific, garbage. 4 so-called "experts" spout off lots of hair-brained theories without any real evidence or documentation to back it up. I've seen two episodes and that's enough for me to never, ever watch this show again. It seems to me that they're more interested in getting their mugs more camera time than showing any truly compelling evidence. The worst two of the bunch is the squat little British guy who claims to be a "contactee." The other is a cowboy wannabe who claims he was a "CIA Operative." Sure he was. In another era he would have been selling snake oil out of a covered wagon. Hopefully this show will be quickly canceled because it's set back legitimate UFO research 20 years. Since the loss of true scientists like J. Allen Hynek and James E. McDonald, the UFO scene has had it's own invasion...of quacks, hucksters and con-men. UFOs are a fascinating phenomena on it's own without polluting the airwaves with such reality-t.v. inspired nonsense. I'd love to see a show that's presented more soberly, more scientifically with real experts presenting compelling evidence.