Comments on: Guest Critic Sarah D. Bunting: The Return of “Unsolved Mysteries”

By: MARATHONS | ‘Unsolved’ will do in a pinch « The TV Manifesto

Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:05:01 +0000

[...] Bunting hit the nail on the head in her review of the show’s makeover. The shiny graphics and fancy computer technology bring the whole thing down, like dollar store [...]

By: Soylent

Soylent — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 02:27:59 +0000

I once made my mother swear to me that if I was ever the victim of an unsolved murder, they were not allowed to do a story on it for any of these types of show. Better my death be unavenged then me having to spend all eternity knowing someone portraying me on TV wearing acid wash genes and a Garfield t-shirt.

Disappointed to hear about the revamp. Watching Murder By the Book, where crime novelists talk about true cases has made me realise what a good job Stack did in making it cheesy fun to watch, but still respecting the victims.
Every author awkwardly interrupts the narrative with pointless comments like “this was a case that had everything” and it just makes me feel slightly tacky that I’m watching the story of someone’s death for entertainment.

By: Collin H

Collin H — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:48:05 +0000

The remixed theme song is HORRIBLE. The old one would send chills down my spine as a child; the new one just sounds generic.

The loss of Stack is also a disappointment. When he died we lost so much – Unsolved Mysteries, Rex Kramer, Ultra Magnus…

He was like an humorless (but still awesome) Phil Hartman.

By: Retta

Retta — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:39:23 +0000

The girl cohost went on to marry Pierce Brosnan!!!

LOVED UM, the opening theme music used to totally creep out my sisters and I. My mom used to use the missing girl segments to scare us.

By: stacey

stacey — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:02:50 +0000

I used to watch while home alone or babysitting just to see how far into the program I could get with neck hairs on end, anxiety pains in stomach, before I simply had to change the channel out of fear. Who did they bring in later for a shark-jump, Tawny Kitaen or someone, as a “co-host”?

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 16:16:48 +0000

Hilarious…but I used to watch UM all the time back in the day. Loved that show, loved to see the bad gys (or gals) get it in the end. Crime doesn’t usually pay.