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- 2019
- TV-14
- A&E
- 2019
- TV-14
- A&E
Summary College professor Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aiden Gillen) is recruited by the US Air Force to lead the secret Project Blue Book to investigate thousands of cases of UFO sightings in this series based on the real investigations conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952-1969.
Created By: David O'Leary
- 2019
- TV-14
- A&E
- 2019
- TV-14
- A&E
Project Blue Book
Season 1 Premiere: 2019
56
7.1
Summary College professor Dr. J. Allen Hynek (Aiden Gillen) is recruited by the US Air Force to lead the secret Project Blue Book to investigate thousands of cases of UFO sightings in this series based on the real investigations conducted by the United States Air Force from 1952-1969.
Created By: David O'Leary
Top Cast
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
56
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
80% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
56
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
80% Mixed
8 Reviews
8 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Even if it’s less nuanced than The Americans and a bit cornier than The X-Files, Project Blue Book has a pulpy energy that carries it over its rougher patches. Whether it has legitimately grand truths to uncover remains to be seen, but for now, it recognizes that concrete answers aren’t nearly as entertaining as mankind’s enduring (and tantalizing) quest to comprehend the great unknown.
Even if the show has trouble finding its sea legs, it’s a perfectly fun bit of distraction that could find an admirable groove if it proves willing to take a step back and make some calculated adjustments.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
23% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 62 User Ratings
7.1
68% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
23% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
10% Negative
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
It is a little dumb in a way that might or might not be intentional--it's hard to tell--and too predictable to be really suspenseful, even when nominally suspenseful things are happening. But this means that watching is also a relatively stress-free experience, and there is something to be said for that.
Project Blue Book feels like “X-Files” Lite, only with a whole lot of indistinguishable men--and all the women are stuck on the sideline.
In all, the six episodes of Project Blue Book did just enough to keep me moving forward in the hopes that everything will click. Even if the storytelling comes together at some point, I'm not sure what can be done to make Hynek and Quinn a better duo. As it stands, the show is interesting without ever being as fascinating or involving as it ought to be.
Overall, the show squanders a fantastic, real-life premise by trying to patch together its own flimsy mythology. Sometimes there’s a deeper meaning behind those lights in the sky. Sometimes it’s just lights. Project Blue Book is just lights. Case closed.
Potentially intriguing moments feel entirely manufactured, and the plots in between are paint-by-number plain with sometimes painfully bad dialogue.
Project Blue Book hits a very interesting and almost undisturbed topic in the world Cinema - the first contact with aliens. We only have extremes from James Cameron 's creepy "Alien" to comedy Men in Black and other things. There is no realistic first contact. With watching the first series of Project Blue Book, you think this pearl is here, and you get a slight disappointment at the exit. No the series itself is dynamic and season 2 reveals it in a complete way, but you don 't expect it. Well, you can 't touch the viewer like that. Yes the ending of season 2 gives hope, but it seems that the series will never walk into the circle of the theme that makes you watch it, but will never touch it.
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Definitely enjoyable sci-fi thriller. The cast is likeable, the hooks are solid, and it's definitely fun to watch them tackle each "case". As fiction, it's pretty great. As history it's.... horribly inaccurate and filled with issues. Take the "based on true events" comment *very* loosely. Project Blue Book and Hynek existed, and indeed studied and tried to explain ufos. That's about where the similarities end. The "cases" are indeed real cases, at least most of them from what I could tell. The show treats them all as real, or as plausibly real, when in reality they're wildly variable in that regard. The show also takes a lot of liberties, includes non-bluebook cases, brings in things that were much later, etc. Fun show but don't expect it to replace your homework.
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This is the most racist tv show I've ever seen. It might be the great show if there was no so much bad words about Russians. America trying to be the most democratic country but they're making Russia the biggest evil in the world and gives no evidence
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Production Company:
- IMN Creative
- A+E Studios
- Compari Entertainment
- History Channel
- ImageMovers
Initial Release Date: 2019
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
American Society of Cinematographers, USA
• 1 Win & 3 Nominations
Leo Awards
• 3 Nominations
The Joey Awards, Vancouver
• 1 Nomination
