The 80's as you should know them in a concentrated form

jytillier

When re-watching the series, it has all of what the 80's where about. A brilliant soundtrack: the temptations, rolling stones, ray Charles, Mitch Ryder, James brown,... Sexual innuendos, gender parity clashes. The actors from the times were also relevant: Whoopi Goldberg, Terry O'Quinn, Judd Nelson, Brooke Adams, and what about having an intro from Orson Welles and Eva Marie-Saint as Maddie's mother. The references to "old Hollywood" are excellent: Harold Loyd, a bit of Shakespeare and musicals. Each episode introduces different kind of creativity: the animated paste that will be later used in Celebrity deathmatch, the reference to John Landis type of comedy, the references to the horror movies of the time (chainsaw massacre, mike myers, exorcist, poltergeist, etc...). The dialogs are excellent and the second part which had lower audience at the time (series 4 and 5) are actually more appreciable now. It is like a concentrated package of all what was the 80's about into a 5-season TV series.

score 10/10

jytillier 27 March 2016

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