Picked Three:
"Bigfoot"
"Haunted Palaces"
"Ghosts"
What impressed me most was the difference in styles between subject matters. "Bigfoot" was the way I remember the show being; a bit of this and a bit of that. The other two episodes took approaches befitting the material: "Haunted Palaces", lots of atmosphere; "Ghosts", a ghost hunter investigates, and this becomes the episode's narrative drive.
The question I ask myself is this: Why did I ignore in Search of... when it originally aired? Did it have to become a piece of nostalgia though reputation for me to become intrigued?...something to search for?...
4 comments:
Great opening tune -- an earworm.
Exactly. I often 'warn' readers when I write a piece about a show that has a catchy theme tune.
Which begs the question: Why are tv tunes today so tuneless?....
Wired mag did a piece on that subject. Their take is that the show "True Detective" was a large influence on the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdtmaqVvWlA
I find that many opening sequences/themes created in this TD style are interchangable, but offhand, "Westworld" and "Game of Thrones" stand out as uniquely matched to their show's niche.
Interesting. Thanks for the notes!
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