This finale set the stage for an even bigger next season and had such a fantastic intensity throughout with many different twists and turns. While I still do believe they did slow the momentum down quite a bit with the last few episodes after the fantastic green fireballs episode, they steered the future of the show in the right direction with this intense and well woven finale. The subplot that was a bit unnecessary throughout the season with Hynek's wife and the Russian female spy definitely slowed the shows great momentum up each episode. I feel they could've spent more time on the Men in Black/alien artifact/overall alien phenomena plotting instead of drawing it out so much. The stories of each episode were very entertaining though cheesy at times because they definitely had to exaggerate the true Hynek accounts of his time with Blue Book. They captured a great ambience and overall theme with this show and i feel they can only improve with future seasons. I do think they were way too scarce with showing the actual aliens. I think they showed an alien for mere seconds in 4 different episodes and that was slightly underwhelming. If they promise "contact" in the next season they really have to show some visuals of alien beings more prevalent. I thought Gillen and Malarkey made a fantastic duo throughout the season and showed terrific chemistry imo. Honestly this is one of the best shows to come out in long time and can only get better. Cannot wait for season 2.
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This season finale Builds an incredible amount of anticipation and excitement for season 2, though teases us majorly!
tresm8713 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The DC Sightings Missing Proof (The Big Flap)
dworegonartist11 March 2020
So this may be a year late but I'm so glad they made this episode about the UFOs over DC since our gov has gone to such great lengths to suppress the information about this major event in American history. Actually I think they could have spent a lot more time on the DC sightings in the series, because it is so extraordinary. However, the critical information left out of this episode that I really hope the show eventually addresses is the voluminous amount of photos and film taken by residents of DC that was collected but is now missing. Many UFO believers I've known question what happened to all of that info and all of the witnesses? It's not like cameras and witnesses weren't readily available then.
It's easy to get lost in each episode because the acting is so good and the creators do such a good job of making it look like authentic 1950s. The building relationship between Quinn & the Dr is as engaging as Fox & Scully, even if Quinn's character is an amalgamation of several military personnel. Hope this series lasts as long as X Files.
10/10. Extremely entertaining !
johnchimbakis13 March 2019
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