Meanwhile, the Russians are also very interested in everything related Project Blue Book. They’ve sent spies Susie (Ksenia Solo), Call Miller (Currie Graham) to the Hynek residence, Susie inserts herself into Mimi’s (Laura Mennell) life, Hynek’s wife. To try and find out what is happening with Project Blue Book. About Mimi, Hynek’s wife, she is quite terrified since her husband started to work for Project Blue Book, men have been following her, threatened her, the phoneline has been bugged and the only friend she had to talk about it was the Russian spy Susie. It was Miller who bugged her phone but Susie of course nodded when Mimi thought about the government. Mimi looks and acts like she truly comes from the 1950’s, her hairdo, her clothing, her conservative way of thinking. She really intrigues me, she also looks fantastic in the 1950’s setting, which is one of the reasons she intrigues me so much.

Laura Mennell, who plays Mimi, already has had such a long career, acting for 27 years now and still is a young woman. She did so many things, lot of sci-fi things also, first saw her in an episode of Millennium in 1999. Other sci-fi/fantasy shows you might know her of: Stargate SG-1; Special Unit 2; Andromeda; Dead Like Me; Stargate Atlantis; The 4400; Sanctuary: Flash Gordon; Blood Ties; Watchmen; Eureka; Fringe; Supernatural; Alphas; Haven; Travelers; Legends of Tomorrow; Van Helsing; The Man in the High Castle and even more. So only these genres I wrote down, but it is so much more, truly amazing!

Hynek and Quinn superiors are two generals: Hugh Valentine and James Harding. Especially Harding (Neal McDonough) is as hard as nails and really does not accept any contradiction from Quinn and certainly not from Hynek, who tends speak his mind a bit too much according to Harding. Neal McDonough is such a great actor, saw him first in Star Trek: First Contact as Lt. Hawk, he nails his part and steals every scene he is in. He damn well knows these are not the doings of the Russians, but you can’t catch him on saying that Aliens exist, he knows damn well of course. We even saw him standing before a covered-up UFO in a hanger (1x02 - The Flatwoods Monster).

During the first season Hynek cannot deny what he has witnessed, he has seen so many unexplainable things but every time he spins a story to the general public that it wasn’t any aliens but something else, some kind of natural phenomenon, for one probably because he was not yet ready to believe it himself but also because the generals wouldn’t tolerate any other explanation. Hynek and Quinn only had one mission as I said earlier, to debunk everything, the general public needed to stay ignorant from everything and anything alien related because it would cause widespread panic! But Hynek also is being shadowed by a mysterious man (Ian Tracey), he helps Hynek to get to the truth of all these incidents but he stays in the shadows. But in the final episode Quinn also learns of Hynek’s ‘relation’ with this mysterious man and it turns out that this mysterious man is not alone! But the one following Hynek says that they are on their side.

The Episodes:

Well the episodes consists of only 10 episodes, not one filler episode, one big story-arc and not one episode that let me down. The very best episode is the season finale, The Washington Merry-Go-Round, almost perfect in everything. The mysterious man delivers prove of existence of alien life to Hynek and Quinn, who show it to Congressman William Fairchild, but he gets killed for it. Hynek goes even stronger against the general as usual, basically saying the generals are lying about everything. Quinn actually sees these alien vessels up close and no longer can deny that alien life exist. During a hearing Quinn tells he thinks he saw aliens ships while the generals are in the same room, but Hynek goes against him, telling Quinn probably has seen some kind of natural phenomenon. Quinn feels he has been betrayed but Hynek explains to him that he only did it so they can keep investigating these cases because if they both would believe in aliens, they most likely would be taken off Project Blue Book. This is truly a phenomenal episode, can’t wait for season two. Other episodes which are a bit better than the rest are: 1x04 - Operation Paperclip; 1x07 - The Scoutmaster; 1x08 War Games & 1x09 Abduction.

Final Word:

Well this is probably different than you expected, I thought I would try a different approach and with a short 1st season like this, it has its charm to write it like this. I will probably experiment with this kind of approach a bit more in the coming months. I really enjoyed the 1st season, definitely one of the best shows of the last decade and as I said earlier, still baffles me that shows like this get cancelled because apparently nobody watches this. The viewer apparently doesn’t want to be challenged with his or her mind, rather watches procedurals or reality TV. Sorry I keep getting back to this but I simply do not understand. So many examples of TV shows that get cancelled way too early while other drivel gets renewed season by season by season. Well I hope you enjoyed this blog, sorry for ranting on a bit here at the end, I needed to get it of my chest…again!

With help from IMdB & screencaps from IMdB