The corporate homsars got ahold of this one, so it has different names like “Air Crash Investigators” outside the JCSA, but this is a collaboration between Canadian filmmakers, the Smithsonian, and National Geographic that takes a Forensic Files approach to technical failures in aviation.
Now, very little will displace Forensic Files as the best television program ever made, but Mayday: Air Disaster follows the same format: backtrack from the event to the diagnosis to ultimately show us what really went wrong.
Expect top-notch acting. These Canadian actors are probably dead from fent overdoses now, but they are quite talented, just not in the “Hollywood” way of being charismatic and vague. They act out not just the event, but the investigators who have to dig through the wreckage and find the cause.
In that lies the appeal of this show: it is really a detective series or a horror movie masquerading as a documentary. The unknown strikes and a plane goes down; the detectives move in to use forensic methods (and ruthless interrogations) to figure out who screwed up and where, then fix it.
You might notice that this completes the arc of not just horror, but westerns and detective fiction: something against which we are powerless appears, and we gradually learn enough to at least mostly defeat it. This also fits within the Forensic Files or American Detective world.
Watchers of this program could not be blamed if they never get on a plane again, but the richness of technical detail, the clarity of the logical analysis, and the bravery of the people involved create an almost theological faith in function over appearance.
Nothing else on television comes really close. This series is a confrontation between human solipsism and the whole of reality, and it shows us slowly winning the war against the limits in our heads.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VINd0j4i1c
Tags: cinema, forensic files, mayday: air disaster, television
Hail to Forensic Files. ASMR for metal autists.
Best program for late night dozing also
Amazing show. I also love How It’s Made and First 48.
I forgot about the latter, but the former was a favorite for many years. Actually useful television “programming.”
Pfft, the only real movies are anything with Leslie Nielsen.
At least, he was in the best movie ever (Airplane!).
Loaded Weapon 1 1993, no Nielsen, but Emilio Estevez instead, still good as Naked Gun though.
Naked Gun 1 & 2 as well. I don’t really remember the third one though. I’m assuming it wasn’t great if I don’t remember it.
Repossessed was great, too. Leslie Nielsen could do no wrong.
Get on Hot Shots! part one and two 1991 and 1993… and Macgruber 2010, if you need more Naked Gun inspired movies. But Loaded Weapon 1 is a masterpiece that is in a league of its own.
Throw in Scary Movie 3 and 4 where Leslie was actually in while at it too, but avoid 5.
Was that a Homestar Runner reference on DMU of all places?
Yes. Homsar is one of the great retard characters in fiction history, like Quasimodo and Lennie Small cospawned.
He truly is incredible. I wish retards in real life wore hats that continuously looped in circles over their heads to identify them from afar, before it’s too late.
Like in Lemmings? I support WORLD MORON DEATH, myself, but this will cut down the Pantera-Opeth fanbase quite a bit.
PanterOpethites are the mark of the beast.
I don’t get why you’d listen to much Opeth but Power Metal is a great album
Holy crap Homestar Runner references here? Amongst you “metal died after Varg went to prison” fucks?
Y’all ain’t so bad.
EHHAAAHAHHAAA YOU GOTTA GET YOURS, I GOTTA GET MINE
Homestar Runner was like, what, a 1996-1998 thing? Yes, lots of internet culture makes it in here, but really Homsar is too perfect of a meme to resist.
Because basically most of humanity is a motherfucking homsar.
96? The website launched in 2000 then exploded in 2003. Once it turned to the 10s the brothers Chapman got bored and moved on to other things.
Eh, I feel like humanity is more mostly Bubs trying to sell you AI and Marzipan trying to sell you trans-surgery.
Dunno. I remember it from that late 1990s timespan, but it’s hard to recall an exact date. It was from that first burst of Flash animations that sort of took over the intertard for awhile.
Reminds me of joecartoon and threebrain…and babycakes