"Decoded" (2010) TV series 2010-

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

2 December 2010 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary | Reality-TV

Plot:

Novelist Brad Meltzer and a team of investigators delve into historical mysteries.

Plot Keywords:

Conspiracy Theory | Government Conspiracy

Cast

Brad Meltzer	...	Himself - Host / ... (12 episodes, 2010-2011)
Buddy Levy	...	Himself - Professor / ... (12 episodes, 2010-2011)
Christine McKinley	...	Herself - Engineer / ... (12 episodes, 2010-2011)
Scott Rolle	...	Himself - Attorney / ... (12 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Writing credits
Rob Blumenstein		(5 episodes, 2010-2011)
Johnathan Walton		(5 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Produced by
Russell McCarroll	....	executive producer / executive producer: History (23 episodes, 2010-2012)
Stewart Shields	....	line producer (20 episodes, 2010-2012)
Gary Auerbach	....	executive producer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Gail Berman	....	executive producer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Lloyd Braun	....	executive producer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Ron Brody	....	field producer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Tina Gazzerro	....	executive producer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Robin Humbert	....	segment producer (11 episodes, 2011)
Mark Cole	....	co-executive producer (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Bruce Halford	....	post story producer (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Marisa Kagan	....	associate producer (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
David McKillop	....	executive producer: History (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Brad Meltzer	....	executive producer (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Eugene Stein	....	executive producer: BermanBraun / executive producer (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Leigh E. Carlson	....	coordinating producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Stacia Crawford	....	assistant coordinating producer / associate producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Joshua Harnden	....	supervising producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Bill Langworthy	....	executive producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Joe Van Ek	....	story producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Christy Wegener	....	story producer (10 episodes, 2011-2012)
Benjamin Cohen	....	associate producer (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Rob Mancini	....	associate producer (7 episodes, 2010-2011)
Pete Berg	....	segment producer (6 episodes, 2010-2011)
Christopher Burt	....	segment producer (6 episodes, 2010-2011)
Bryn Freedman	....	executive producer (6 episodes, 2010-2011)
Johnathan Walton	....	story producer / producer (6 episodes, 2010-2011)
Jake Laufer	....	co-executive producer (5 episodes, 2011)
Rob Blumenstein	....	story producer (4 episodes, 2010-2011)
Natalie Neurauter	....	associate producer (4 episodes, 2011-2012)
Christina Louviere	....	segment producer (4 episodes, 2011)
Amanda Ahmad	....	associate producer / assistant producer (3 episodes, 2011)
Amanda L. Ahmad	....	associate producer (3 episodes, 2011)
Chris Hanley	....	associate producer (3 episodes, 2011)
Julie Auerbach	....	executive producer (2 episodes, 2010-2011)
Amy Poitinger	....	story producer (2 episodes, 2011)

Series Original Music by
Scott Greer		(22 episodes, 2010-2012)

Series Cinematography by
Toby Birney		(22 episodes, 2010-2012)

Series Film Editing by
Patrick Luce		(11 episodes, 2011)
Madelaine Jereczek		(9 episodes, 2011-2012)
Joey Castro		(8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Frank Lagnese		(7 episodes, 2010-2011)
Jesse Friedman		(4 episodes, 2011)
Mark Baum		(3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Larry Frank		(3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Bert Glatstein		(3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Joseph Lorenzetti		(3 episodes, 2010)

Series Art Direction by
Stephanie Barkley		(1 episode, 2010)

Series Makeup Department
Lisa Iadarola	....	assistant makeup artist (1 episode, 2010)
Robin Ryant	....	make-up (1 episode, 2011)

Series Production Management
Sean Ervin	....	post-production supervisor (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Seph Ternes	....	production manager (3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Henry Capanna	....	executive in charge of production (2 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Art Department
Alena Cochran	....	graphic designer (1 episode, 2011)
Caleb Drewel	....	graphic designer (1 episode, 2011)
Michael Kellogg	....	digital imaging assistant (1 episode, 2011)
John Mitchell	....	graphic designer (1 episode, 2011)
Daniel Scruggs	....	graphic designer (1 episode, 2011)

Series Sound Department
Fernando Muga	....	sound mixer / audio mixer (11 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Visual Effects by
Alena Cochran	....	visual effects artist (23 episodes, 2010-2012)
John Mitchell	....	lead visual effects artist / visual effects artist (23 episodes, 2010-2012)
Patrick Hibbs II	....	visual effects artist (13 episodes, 2011-2012)
Jeff Fuller	....	visual effects artist (12 episodes, 2011-2012)
Caleb Drewel	....	digital compositor (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Desiree Lunsford	....	visual effects supervisor (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Daniel Scruggs	....	visual effects supervisor (10 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Jason Eksuzian	....	camera operator (12 episodes, 2011-2012)
Fiore Cosimo	....	grip (2 episodes, 2011)
Ryan Ferguson	....	electrician (2 episodes, 2011)
Sam Graydon	....	assistant camera / camera assistant (2 episodes, 2011)

Series Casting Department
Elya Beer	....	casting (3 episodes, 2010)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Robin Ryant	....	wardrobe (1 episode, 2011)

Series Editorial Department
Shane Lefler	....	colorist / on-line editor (23 episodes, 2010-2012)
Aziza Ngozi Walker	....	assistant editor (12 episodes, 2011-2012)
Matthew Simpson	....	lead assistant editor (12 episodes, 2011-2012)
Robert Lanford	....	assistant editor (11 episodes, 2011-2012)
Nicole King	....	assistant editor (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
AJ Havrilla	....	assistant editor (9 episodes, 2011-2012)
Patrick Luce	....	assistant editor (5 episodes, 2010)
Ezra Paek	....	assistant editor (5 episodes, 2010)
Samantha DeGhetto	....	assistant editor (3 episodes, 2010)
Brandon Crooks	....	post production supervisor / post supervisor (3 episodes, 2011)
Michael Buck	....	lead assistant editor (2 episodes, 2011)

Series Music Department
Devin Powers	....	composer: additional music / music supervisor (11 episodes, 2010-2011)
Justin Marcellus	....	composer: additional music (10 episodes, 2010-2011)

Series Other crew
Natalie Neurauter	....	researcher (19 episodes, 2010-2011)
Casey Elliott	....	story assistant (11 episodes, 2011)
Leigh E. Carlson	....	production coordinator (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Marisa Kagan	....	production assistant (10 episodes, 2010-2011)
Amy Chaffin	....	story editor / story assistant (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Jennifer Klein	....	story editor / story assistant (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Alexandria Scott	....	story editor / story assistant (8 episodes, 2010-2011)
Amanda L. Ahmad	....	story assistant (4 episodes, 2011)
Trina DeMattei	....	production assistant / set production assistant (4 episodes, 2011)
Kat Hess	....	production assistant / set production assistant (4 episodes, 2011)
Jen Klein	....	researcher / story assistant / ... (3 episodes, 2010-2011)
Decoded	....	lead researcher (3 episodes, 2011)
Jorge Del Pinal	....	researcher (3 episodes, 2011)
Marietta Durst	....	production accountant (2 episodes, 2010-2011)
Kevin Scott Page	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2010)
Maritsa Arteaga	....	production assistant (2 episodes, 2011)
Shannon Lively	....	set production assistant (2 episodes, 2011)

Production Companies

• BermanBraun
• Go Go Luckey Productions

Distributors

• History Channel (2010) (USA) (TV)

Also Known As:

"Brad Meltzer's Decoded" - USA (complete title)

Runtime:

60 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

BermanBraun

Submoronic...F-

Last night, I watched a show on the "History" Channel called "Decoded" about the supposed "mystery" surrounding the Georgia Guidestones, a bizarre monument erected by an anonymous millionaire near Atlanta in 1980. I feel stupid even using the word "mysterious" in relation to this collection of large granite slabs, because there are some people who know exactly who paid the half-million dollar price-tag, but were sworn to secrecy in order to secure the patron's business (and entice tourists).

The show starts with the sophomoric and hasty assumption that the builder was a Rosicrucian, based on the pseudonym of the monument's builder, "R.C. Christian" and the cross-like shape of the monument, and then runs with that assumption for the rest of the show, investigating no other possibilities, not even in passing. Keep in mind, this was aired on the History Channel. The channel calls itself that; that just blows my mind.

The show's host/narrator, Brad Meltzer, makes appearances from time to time to act as wooden as humanly possible and ask maddeningly stupid questions that add absolutely nothing to the investigation. And what an investigation! The fieldwork is handled by a gang of three other blithering morons who go off on unfocused tangents that make a nine-year-old boy drinking red Kool-Aid in a room full of video games and toy guns look laser-like by comparison.

Here's the "arc" the investigators follow during the course of this sub-moronic television show: Who made this monument?--Rosicrucians did it—Who were the Rosicrucians?—Rosicrucians are scary--Rosicrucian mind control techniques—Using the brain to control artificial limbs(!) in a lab—Rosicrucians are harmless old women into New Age crap—Sweaty old dude remembers meeting the guy who paid for monument in 1979—NASA astronomer says solar flares no big deal—Investigators somehow come to the conclusion that solar flares could destroy human society because antennas and power girds won't work--Edgar Cayce's predictions about North America—Edgar Cayce wasn't a crank--2012 is scary—We don't know who made this monument—The End.

This is not an exaggeration. The show was this disjointed and melodramatic. And pointless. The cause of popular awareness of what historical research entails was set back by 3000 years watching this hunk of crap show.

And, America: whenever you meet someone who claims to be a doctor and he has large piercings in his ears and is carrying a map depicting what Edgar Cayce said would happen to America and earnestly relays to you that Edgar Cayce was "usually right," I would HOPE that you would demand to see/hear this person's credentials.

And "looking it up on the Internet" is NOT research, America. Jesus! I cannot remember ever feeling such rage at a television show, mostly because I know—call me smug or superior, fine—I KNOW that the audience is generally going to be too stupid to spot the slag-heap of logical and procedural flaws that make this show the piece of crap that it is.

The History Channel sucks. Take it from me, I'm a doctor. No. Really. Trust me.