A new web series from the team at Strange Science, Operation Midnight Climax, tackles this questionable time in post-war US history and its pilot episode (above) was just released online this week.
The premise for the series all centers around the 1950’s CIA project code named MK-ULTRA. If you have some time to kill, plow through the Wikipedia page that gets into the whole controversy and investigations behind the operation.
The name of the series is pulled from an actual CIA operation that turned safehouses in several cities into brothels where the agency could easily lure in men and secretly drug them with these experimental drugs which for the most part meant LSD. There’s one-way mirrors so the spooks could record all the findings. Apparently one case involved volunteers being given LSD for 77 consecutive days!
With all the newly imagined worlds being created in the web series world, it’s refreshing to see historical fiction thrown in the mix. Hollywood so far hasn’t explored this steamy footnote of our checkered spy history, probably because much of the project still remains highly classified.
The series was one of the handful of indie web series selected for the Independent Television Festival (along with OzGirl). We’ll have the complete list of web series that made the cut on Monday.
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