Encounters Review: Netflix’s documentary series is directed by Yon Motskin, and the cinematography is by Tim Cragg. The episode features real people named Pat Leatherwood, Lee Roy Gaitain, Tomonori Izumi, and many others. There are 4 episodes of 45-52 minutes each. The episodes are titled Messengers, The Broad Haven Triangle, Lights Over Fukushima and Believers.
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Encounters Review: Plot Summary
In the Netflix docuseries Encounters, several people from different places come together to share their experience of an alien or UFO sighting. However, their experience is dismissed by others, and they are led to believe that it was either their imagination or they are not telling the truth. In the series, these people open up about how they came across the otherworldly species or things related to them and how they’ve been misled about what really happened.
Encounters Review: Discussion
The four episodes of Encounters on Netflix tell us how these foreign species made several individuals witness and feel their presence with striking lights or chilling appearances. The episodes feature people and stories from Texas, Zimbabwe, a Welsh village named Broad Haven and Fukushima. The documentary is a collection of various encounters in the last 50 years. The episodes also feature footage that helps us with the credibility of the individual experiences and the sightings.
The first episode grips you with its tale and conspiracies as we learn what happened and how the individuals involved reacted to the situation. Someone says that such alien encounters are life-changing. The moment before and after you see a UFO feel completely different and change you as a person. The statement is enough to show the impact such incidents have on people, especially if they are made to believe that what they saw was not real or it’s just a confusion of their minds.
The intention of this documentary is not mainly to find why these aliens appeared or how the spottings can be scientifically studied. It has an individual-centric approach where people share the impact on their minds. The makers have not shied away from showing how people call out the government authorities for hiding several such secrets from the world.
From episode 2, except for the year, the experiences sound similar. The documentary gets into a monotonous zone with very little left to surprise the viewer. People from different places have common things to say about how they felt, how they were made to feel, and how they’ve grown up keeping so many things to themselves. As the trailer and makers had intended to, the docuseries fails to startle you with its revelations due to the narrative lacking variety afterwards.
Instead of stretching the story into 4 episodes, Encounters Netflix would have engrossed us more in a 2-hour documentary with a non-linear narrative that intertwines all these experiences together. It would not make viewers skip to the next chapter and would’ve been more memorable.
Encounters Review: Final Thoughts
Overall, the alien docuseries get repetitive despite having some compelling otherworldly stories to offer. It links different theories and how certain places are a hub to multiple extraterrestrial spotting. It demands too much of your time for a premise we have a clear idea from the first episode itself. If the pace and format were different, it would’ve been a riveting watch.
The docuseries is now streaming on Netflix.
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