Alien Lore 75: They're here. They're hostile. And powerful people don't want you to know.

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In my booklet, Dark Skies is the greatest television show ever created, and it's tragic it did not survive its first season. The creators, Bryce Zabel and Brent V. Friedman, plotted a fantastic five year story arc that encompassed history from 65 million years B.C., to the present day. The show begins in 1947, during the Truman administration, when America was invaded by the hive, in the form of Greys. An alien (hive) invasion takes place right beneath our noses.



The story begins with JFK's assassination for planning to tell the nation the truth about UFOs if he was re-elected to a second term. From there, it gets stranger and kookier and more and more eerie. One of the hallmarks of the show was using bits of real life and real people as part of the story. You meet people like John Lennon, Timothy Leary, Dorothy Killgallen, Bobby Kennedy, Jack Ruby, Jim Morrison, William Paley, Hubert Humphrey, Truman, and many many more.

If you would like to see this series, you'll have to borrow my bootleg DVDs, or wait until Sony decides to release them. I don't like to buy bootlegs, and I will indeed buy the legit ones. . .if Sony comes to their senses (not likely considering their PS/3 strategy). You can find the boots, which are not bad--roughly VHS quality--on EBay.

Bryce Zabel has an interesting blog--For What It's Worth "dispatches from the culture war"--where he focuses on a lot of interesting pop culture sidebars. I like this guy a lot. He's smart, he wrote a nice piece about his dad on Father's Day, and he created a great TV show in a vast desert of drek.
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