Alien Invasion: Hudson Valley goes on to show how easy it is to call extradimensional activity. His easy local access isn’t the reason the area’s complaints take up most of the log. Marc D’Antonio, the chief photo researcher for MUFON, was born, raised and lives in the Hudson Valley. Ever since ghostly dirigibles were reported over the area in 1909. But the reports go back over 100 years, the two-hour special documentary points out. Just north of New York City, they’ve logged more UFO complaints than any other area in the world, bugging MUFON, the world’s largest civilian UFO investigative organization, with 3,000 extraterrestrial encounter reports in the past 10 years alone. The Hudson Valley wants to be Roswell East. Aliens are a nuisance, let’s face it, especially when you’ve got “an alien highway” in your basement.Īrea 51 has an excuse for its reputation, being government controlled and heavily secure. government can no longer deny the existence of UFOs, eyewitnesses feel emboldened to share their stories.” The residents of Pine Bush, in the heart of Hudson Valley, New York, can no longer take the undeniable. So is there some connection there between the two? Yet because the writers seem like they are almost afraid to reveal just a little more spread throughout the series about what they know about the whole story, we're left feeling baffled instead of captivated.Alien Invasion: Hudson Valley, the latest installment of discovery+’s Shock Docs franchise, opens with the disclaimer: “Now that the U.S. An example of how poorly this works out for the audience is one of the final scenes in Ep 10 when the dead boy has a dream/is in the afterlife (?) and sees the JASA lady's girlfriend's father with the compass. You feel the writers/producers are really confident in the show because they know what's really going on, but they don't give us enough information that hints at what's really going on, so we're not left intrigued, but confused as hell.Hell, even if the show would have relied on the trope of background news reports on TV screens giving updates on the alien invasion it would have helped provide that expositional context the show sorrily needed. No one ever ran into someone who gave us enough important expository updates on battles in the rest of the world or what countries were holding up well, or where the invasion was concentrated, or if there were literal alien ships zooming around the skies. Along with missing background action, the show was missing expositional context.It felt like you were watching a stage play (kicking one dead alien corpse? This was supposedly a WORLDWIDE massive invasion). This lack of background action also made the celebration scenes in Ep 10 feel so hollow – people were out celebrating on the streets but it just didn't feel real. Even the scenes where you see the US military housing civilians (where the doctor lady and her family went) felt so small-scale, like it was a pretend US army a student filmmaker uses by dressing his friends up in camo gear. It's fine if the show doesn't want to focus on the pow-bang alien invasion action, but because we got so few glimpses that there was a worldwide alien invasion, it simply didn't feel like the earth was under attack. Often there wasn't enough background action to make it feel like an alien invasion was actually happening. Missing background action was also a big problem in this show.But the other storylines seemed just too generic/manufactured to pull this off realistically. Nothing wrong with that (JASA girl storyline pulls this off well while still keeping us engaged with the larger invasion). I understand the aim of the show is to tell personal stories amidst an alien invasion. No joke, the imagery accompanying the opening credits is really good/spooky. The JASA storyline was really the only one driving the plot forward and I thought even all the bit players in that storyline did a good job. You believe she is really devastated by the death of her girlfriend and someone in that situation really could probably not give a **** less that the world is being invaded by aliens. She's the only one who doesn't seem like she's acting.
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