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post #1 of 10
6/20/10 at 8:52am
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Watching this again for the first time since it aired in '93 (thank you, belatedly purchased DVD). Boy, what a glorious clusterfuck of ideas, satire and stunt casting — kind of like Southland Tales: The Miniseries. (Which, for me, is a good thing, as I'm one of the nine people who actually dug Southland Tales.) Only in the wake of Twin Peaks would ABC even have thought about attempting this, though of course — as Bruce Wagner ceaselessly said at the time — it has precisely zero in common with Twin Peaks other than not being the usual network fare.

Anyone else remember this heffalump?
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post #2 of 10
6/20/10 at 11:31am
All I remember from this are the sci-fi collars on everyone's suits and James Belushi driving past a lot of random acts of violence. Even as an undiscriminating teen, I knew this show was a pile of crap.
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post #3 of 10
6/20/10 at 11:45am
I remember liking the shot of the kids watching TV, from the POV of the television.

I also half-remember the comic strip in Details magazine this was based on.
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post #4 of 10
6/20/10 at 11:45am
I remember it. I had been reading the comic in Details form when it first began, and it was just as confusing and as much a mind fuck. Such a gloriously offbase and offbeat series. Like watching the last episode of The Prisoner for each episode.

And those weren't sci fi collars. They are Edwardian collars.
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post #5 of 10
6/20/10 at 1:18pm
So... you're telling me the Edwardians are from the future?
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post #6 of 10
7/12/10 at 5:48am
Had a couple of great musical numbers in it. The gunfight to 'House of the Rising Sun' and Beethoven's 7th under the swimming pool spring to mind.
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post #7 of 10
7/12/10 at 11:21am
I remember really enjoying Angie Dickinson's BIG EVIL MAMA character and that one time she clawed that guy's eyes out. That and the tiny Ben Savage assassin.
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post #8 of 10
7/13/10 at 6:17am
When this first came on back in 93 I was obsessed with it even though the mainstream press just slated it.

Never seen the DVD's available anywhere but would be good to revisit if I see it cheap and view it through these cynical, jaded eyes...
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post #9 of 10
7/13/10 at 3:47pm
i remember it pretty well, and even as a teenager i remember thinking: James Belushi is completely wrong for this.

It really was a bizarre clusterfuck but it still managed to be enjoyable, i remember robert Loggia as the kinda godfather of the piece and Kim Cattrall as the femme fatale back when she was more milf than grilf.

No-one (especially the cast) had any idea what was going on, it was clear they were trying to tap in to the Twin Peaks weirdness but with a sci-fi twist and it could have worked if not for JIM FUCKING BELUSHI.

If i had a few hours to kill i could be talked into watching it again.
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post #10 of 10
7/13/10 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by mr_adam View Post
i remember it pretty well, and even as a teenager i remember thinking: James Belushi is completely wrong for this.

It really was a bizarre clusterfuck but it still managed to be enjoyable, i remember robert Loggia as the kinda godfather of the piece and Kim Cattrall as the femme fatale back when she was more milf than grilf.

No-one (especially the cast) had any idea what was going on, it was clear they were trying to tap in to the Twin Peaks weirdness but with a sci-fi twist and it could have worked if not for JIM FUCKING BELUSHI.

If i had a few hours to kill i could be talked into watching it again.
It's one of those rare situations where I'd love to see a remake, because a lot of it almost works.
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