In between series two and three we learn that Arthur's mother is dead and he is suddenly not very friendly with Timmy and Madeline and we realize how much we have missed because of the huge gap between each season and I wish we could have had more episodes. My main criticism is how the story switches about so much it's often hard to tell what's happening. Certainly a family type show but the storyline might be too complex for the under tens although I may be underestimating the intelligence of many of them. Here we have characters who do a lot of stuff they think is for the good of mankind but deep down they regret what they do. Granite Flats shows the good and bad in all people. Was Lee Harvey Osward programmed to kill President Kennedy? I suppose we'll never know the real story behind that but who knows what dirty dealings went on then and still do to this day.

The third series came to a very good climax although I did guess who the 'Plummer' was long before he was exposed. I have now watched all 3 seasons of Granite Flats and I was impressed overall. There was a lot of fuzzy thinking with the duck and cover exercises and the basement bomb shelters, but it's easy to see why from a contemporary perspective. But I also remember my own anxiety over the Cuban missile crisis or over the fact that a major Air Force base 60 miles to the north would be a likely target for nuclear attack. The biggest fun for me though was in seeing how goofy people's thinging was back in the days of the cold war. But don't think the show is only about the kids - the adults are all interesting and they have very real interactions with each other. Of course, much of my interest was in the fact that I lived through this period and was probably the same age in 1962 as the kids. I've always been interested in a 'what if' kind of story, and this develops the premise very well. The acting was good, the writing was very good, and the plot moved along quite well. I'll confess that I watched this primarily because it was produced locally and because it followed something I had been watching on the same channel.

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