'In Search Of' episode 8 review: 'Life After Death' takes on human mortality from a scientific as well as philosohpical perspective
'Time Travel' had been the best episode of the season so far, though the introduction of 'Mind Control' had me hoping there would be a new challenger to that throne. A concept that has intrigued both the scientific community, as well humanity as a whole, for centuries, there were umpteen possible angles at which 'In Search Of' could have chosen to explore it. And, despite its 40-minute running time, it manages to address several of these in a well-researched and understandable way.
It appeared as though the episode had kicked off on a bad note — the parallels between Andrew Basiago claiming he had time traveled and James Walbert claiming he had been mind-controlled were there for all to see — but that proved to just be a case of me jumping the gun. And to my delight, the producers did not forget to include one of the most infamous mind control experiments in history: MKUltra. The CIA's program's usage of LSD is skimmed over, but there's only so much one can cram within the confines of a single episode.
