How do you feel about true crime documentary television series? Me personally, I feel a touch icky about it; commodifying very real pain and traumas for the almighty content farm strikes me as exploitative and casually triggering, and maybe even appealing to our worst impulses as audience members. However, I cannot deny the efficacy of many of these programs — the end of The Jinx remains an all-time TV watching memory of mine — and cannot deny the expediency in results they can have in these real life pain and traumas. It's from this murky, unsure pool of intellectual musings …

Earlier this year, Unsolved Mysteries returned in a radically different form. Despite the show’s inherent kitsch value (and the presence of Stranger Things producer Shawn Levy, who certainly knows the value of 80s nostalgia), this new iteration of the classic series (which ran, on various networks, from 1988 to 2002) shed many of its trappings. Gone was a garrulous host (although the legendary Robert Stack does make a ghostly appearance at the end of each episode’s title sequence), multiple mysteries per episode (the original series had at least four) and the rather impressionistic approach to dramatic reenactments. Instead, …

The investigation continues.

If you’re a longtime fan of Unsolved Mysteries like me, odds are you got through the first six episodes of the excellent Netflix revival and asked, “Where are the ghost stories?” In addition to missing persons, cold case murders, and UFO sightings, creepy-as-all-hell ghost stories were a staple of the original series hosted by Robert Stack. Luckily, executive producer Terry Dunn Meurer says we can look forward to some spookiness in the next batch of episodes. In an interview with Variety, Dunn Meurer revealed that a ghost episode is indeed among the next series of six …

Unsolved Mysteries has returned. And not a moment too soon. The pioneering true-crime series originally began as a series of specials back in 1987, hosted by such imposing figures as Raymond Burr, Karl Malden, and Robert Stack. And when it became a full-fledged series a year later, Stack returned as the host and erstwhile narrator, able to inject even more weight and just the right amount of self-awareness, into tales of kidnappings, lost loves, UFO sightings and missing persons (amongst other things). The Stack-led Unsolved Mysteries (with a period where Virginia Madsen was installed as a …

Netflix has released the official trailer for its Unsolved Mysteries revival; prepare to be intrigued. It's been well over a year since we last reported on the Unsolved Mysteries revival. As such, it's exciting to get a preview of the fruits of this revival, with mysteries running the gamut from very human to very supernatural teased during the minute-and-a-half trailer. [caption id="attachment_905748" align="alignright" width="360"] Image via Netflix[/caption] The official Unsolved Mysteries revival trailer reveals excerpts from the first six mysteries. It looks like this new Unsolved Mysteries will investigate cases both …

The story of the Zodiac killer has fascinated the public for decades and inspired David Fincher. What did he get right and wrong about the cases?

Movies often take inspiration from real life, and these actual mysteries and unsolved crimes helped to create intriguing films.

This post contains some mild spoilers about the plot of The Irishman. Martin Scorsese's The Irishman is a towering, winding journey into the past. Not just the general past, mind you, but one man's past — Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) — as he becomes ingratiated with the Bufalino crime family through Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and grows close to labor union leader Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). Just knowing Pacino is playing Hoffa means there's a good chance you know The Irishman is going to have to address the unsolved case of Hoffa's disappearance in 1975 (he was …

But will he share it?

The enigmatic Quaithe remains Game of Thrones' biggest unresolved mystery. Here's who we think she is and what purpose she serves Daenerys' story.

Star Trek's canon spans hundreds of episodes across a number of different series, as well as several films. However, not every question is answered.

Lost ended without explaining all of its mysteries and secrets but, fortunately, the epilogue managed to explain some of the leftover questions.

More than any other piece of pop culture, Star Wars is the most dissected property around. For every film that is released, fans dive into every frame, line and character to reveal as much as they can about the overall universe. With more films and television series on the way that connect to the original canon, there will be plenty of Star Wars material to obsess over for years to come.

The Harry Potter universe is known for its fantastic mysteries. Reading those books was like traveling down an endless dungeon, with new twists and shadows around every corner. However, at the end of Deathly Hallows, most of those mysteries were answered. Or were they? Despite the many questions that J.K. Rowling did answer at the end of her series, there were still a few mysteries that never got resolved. We dug into some of those questions and listed the most interesting of them here. So put on your sorting hats and hold your wands close, here are 10 Unsolved Mysteries from the Harry Potter Canon.

If you haven't been under a rock for the past week, you've already seen Amazon tease their new Lord of the Rings series. Even though it's just a map, this quick teaser already has fans asking a lot of questions. But the thing is, mysteries surrounding the Lord of the Rings aren't new.