Bio presents a very interesting take on the whole psychic detective/healer theme tonight with “The uneXplained,” a real-life documentary series about problems that can’t be solved by cops, shrinks or medical doctors.
If you’re thinking cheesy reality show, think again. This one comes from executive producer Doug Liman of “The Bourne Trilogy,” movie and countless TV series.
Debuting with two back-to-back half-hour episodes, the first one, “Dead Man’s Curve,” involves a New Orleans man, Shane Fell, who has been missing for over six months. Shane and his brother Brett went out to shoot pool and have a couple of beers one night. Brett called Shane when he got home to make sure he’d gotten home OK but Shane said he’d been in an accident and overturned his car. By the time Brett got there, the cops were already there — but Brett wasn’t. He’s never been seen again.
Desperate, the family brings in “Intuitive Investigator” Pam Coranado, who works with photos. Pam tracks the missing man through visions to the woods — but the question becomes, does Shane want to be found? Fascinating. Next episode involves a single mom, Aide Zazueta, the mother of three boys who began suffering unexplained seizures two years earlier. They have gotten so severe that she lost her job, became disabled and is unable to leave the house. MS, lupus, epilepsy and every other disorder/disease has been ruled out.
Finally, with the help of the show, the family brings in Tarmo Urb, a shamanic healer from Estonia. Like an exorcist, Urb finds that Zazueta is suffering from a centuries-old family curse.
He maintains that, 400 years ago, she and her mother were husband and wife. Zazueta was the abusive husband who was cursed by his beaten wife (now her mother). Through an exorcism of sorts, and healing, Urb attempts to stop her from the disabling seizures.
Warning: This is very difficult to watch. Not the exorcism, but the very real tragedy that has befallen this family as they buckle emotionally and financially under Zazueta’s disabling condition.
“The uneXplained” is definitely very, well, inexplicable.