'Project Blue Book' Season 1 episode 8 review: Hynek's scientific temperament proves to be the voice of reason in 'War Games'
This article may contain spoilers for 'Project Blue Book' season 1 episode 8: 'War Games.'
History's ongoing show 'Project Blue Book' is just eight episodes old now, and if anything, the story based on the titular real-life investigation revolving aliens and UFO sightings in the 50s, only gets more complex and darker as the plot progresses. Mingling both facts and nuanced fiction together, the show does a remarkable job at portraying the real-life phenomena that caused widespread panic among civilians and army men alike in America.
Much like the title of the eighth installment, 'War Games,' suggested, portrayed was a lot of post-traumatic stress the soldiers underwent as a consequence of the preceding World War II, and also the eventual panic that had risen as a result of the brewing Cold War at the time.
