Netflix rebooted the fan-favorite TV series Unsolved Mysteries in 2020, and the streamer has just released the announcement that Volume Four of the show will be premiering in late 2024, ComicBook.com reports. The announcement has arrived in the Netflix special teaser of the list of content that will be premiering on the streamer in 2024.
According to Comicbook.com, the series Unsolved Mysteries explains the most complicated yet intricate events and criminal cases. Groups of journalists, family members, and detectives show their theories on the cases. The rebooted show is created by Cosgrove/Meurer Productions, who created the original show, and 21 Laps Entertainment, Stranger Things’ main producers.
The original show, according to ComicBook.com, was hosted by Robert Stack and showed viewers a mix of murders and crime cases that have never been resolved, with some paranormal cases as well. The series that has been rebooted by Netflix, focuses on crime stories mostly rather than adding cases involving supernatural disappearances.
The producer of the show, Terry Dunn Meurer (Yesterday’s Children, Voice from the Grave, Betrayal of Trust) has shared the reason why this sudden change happened in the reboot, in an exclusive interview with USA Today in 2020, via ComicBook.com. “We don’t have nearly as many ‘lost-love’ story submissions as we did, because people can find people (now) with Ancestry.com, 23andMe, and the internet,” Meurer stated. “We don’t have as many UFO stories, because (with) cellphones, you figure if somebody saw (a UFO) a lot of people would be recording it, not just one person.”
Another difference, according to Comicbook.com, between this revival series and the original series is that, with its availability on a streaming service, fans can dive deeper into each episode and aim to uncover their own clues through internet research.
Furthermore, fans are able to look at clues within the cases by just looking up on the internet, hence what Meurer stated in the 2020 interview, the reason being the availability of better technology today.
“I would say that there are a lot more people who get more deeply involved in some of these cases. With the Netflix series, we know that there’s a lot of viewers that do a deep dive and they go into social media,” Meurer stated in a 2022 exclusive interview, via ComicBook.com. “I think, as well as for the podcast, people want to know more, and so now they have the opportunity to know more. So when they have the opportunity to know more, they do more digging and then they come up with their own theories and then they communicate with other people who are interested in that particular case. I just think there’s more communication than there used to be. When we were just on NBC, the show would air once. You couldn’t rewind, look at any clue, you couldn’t look at anything. The next time you were going to see that episode was going to be if it reran in the summer. Now you can see all the old shows, they’re streaming on various platforms. So it’s changed.
The producer has added conclusively, via Comicbook.com, “There’d be the stories that you talked about the next day, but you couldn’t do the deep dive into the research and the details and see what else you could dig up. People are just more involved, and I think the more people get involved in trying to solve mysteries and trying to analyze these cases, I think that just creates more interest in them, it feeds the beast. Many people say, ‘Oh, God, let’s give the viewers out there what they’re looking for. Let’s give them more true crime.’ But we don’t think of ourselves, I mean, yes, we do crime stories, of course, but we do think of ourselves as a mystery story.”