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time to start sending Peter unsolicited Puffalump pictures for………….use
Max Headroom was definitely one of those “synonymous with the ’80s” things that everyone knows about but few actually experienced.
The original tv movie and them the short-lived show were amazing (perhaps one of the first-ever depictions of a cyberpunk world), but the weird and out-of-nowhere Coke ad campaign is the reason it briefly became a thing.
I remember keeping a limited edition New Coke can with him on it b/c yeah… C-c-c-c-catch the wave!
I loved Max Headroom when it came out in ’86(?) It was such a unique show for its time. I rewatched the whole series over the pandemic years (only 2 8-episode seasons, available for free on the Internet Archives). It is really amazing how accurate aspects of the show were. In 1986, they nailed constant access/addiction to media, internet connected everything, a consumerism-focused cashless society, constant surveillance, artificial intelligence, increased income disparity and homelessness, and mega-corporations that provide everything. Just replace the networks with social media outlets and ratings wars with competing for followers and the story lines would be timely today.
The whole thing was very Terry Gilliam, in the best of ways. I was really impressed when I found out that almost all of it was done with practical effects and that Matt Frewer would spend hours getting into the makeup to do Max.
And I still think of blipverts when I’m blasted with internet ads.
Oh Yeah, I watched every episode. The only possibly more ’80’s is Like a Virgin.
>If you want to know what’s going on in this photo
I doubt the real story is anything close to what my mind has made up.
Please sir, I want some more (I always thought Oliver! was a Christmas movie).