Montgomery County, TX is apparently a hotbed for paranormal activity and TEXtraterrestrial host Rick Davis is looking into all the high strangeness. Lights appear over the place every 18 months and an abundance of abduction stories and disappearances shadow the area. The main focus of the faux 90’s Sightings style program is on a small, ill-fated family (Thomas family) with a newly purchased childlike AI housekeeper that goes wonky whenever the lights are about. It’s all presented as a piece of lost media, airing once and then being pulled and mostly forgotten, the aesthetic is well presented by all involved, even if the digitally-added tape artifacts are more-so annoying than anything else. The overdramatic narration, archival footage and visual leanings match pretty damn well, so it has that going for it. Although, with the QR codes and commercials for AI housekeepers made to resemble children, the timeline may not make much sense. I guess you can still record a digitally aired program onto a VHS tape via VCR but I’m not sure what the point is and why the setup is necessary… also, I’m thinking way too much into things. It’s a bit of an unconvincing mess in the front half thanks mostly to iffy performances (I wouldn’t even call them weak… not all of them, it’s just you can see actors acting) and some truly boring bits but once the Thomas family footage comes into play, it picks up some speed and becomes the found footage ridiculousness it should have been… with footage from the POV of the AI servant, a cloud storage necklace camera (sure) and maybe a home camera or two. It drags but their are crumbs of a good time, even if it’s been done better elsewhere.
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