"MonsterQuest"
is a TV show produced by History Channel, trying to take a
"scientific" angle on various urban legends and ghost stories,
usually from the United States.
With this third season, the quest goes off rails as the team ransacks the New York sewage system looking for alligators (they only find roaches), or sends out a posse to find the...wait for it...Jersey Devil - in broad day light, no less. "Snowbeast Slaughter" looked promising, but according to the perennial sceptics on the web, the episode might actually be a gigantic hoax?!
The real nose dive, pun intended, comes in the episode about the Black Demon, a gigantic man-eating shark hiding out in Baja California. The team does manage to establish contact with a shark of truly enormous proportions, only to find that it's a completely harmless...whale shark.
I was somewhat annoyed by the eye-witnesses who refuse to accept natural explanations to their encounters with "monsters", such as the lady whose car was trashed by a feral dog - apparently, the car was so rusty that pretty much any animal could have chewed it! In her version, a sturdy vehicle was destroyed by a monster (OK, I guess it could have been a rabid St. Bernard).
Am I getting too old for this kind of stuff, or what?
I'm not sure how to rate this DVD (which only includes 8 of the 25 episodes of Season Three), but since I don't want my rusty persona to be mauled by the Abominable MonsterQuest Fan Monster, I give it the OK rating. Three stars.
Running for cover...
:D
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