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A group of radical artists smuggled political messages into Melrose Place
- klyrs 3y agoNice try, Netflix, I'm not gonna binge a show for non-product-placement.
- rjsw 3y agoThere is more on the wikipedia page [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place#GALA_Committee https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melrose_Place#GALA_Committee
- ceejayoz 3y agoEach of those items is discussed in the article (including images of 3/4 of them).
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoA mainstream television program is loaded with the makers' political opinions? Never(!)
- ahahahahah 3y agowow, so sharp and insightful... except that that's not really what the article is about. it's more about how hard it is for the maker' political opinions to be loaded in the show: > This plot arc aired in the mid-1990s, when abortion wasn’t really an option for characters on television shows. If a series even openly discussed abortion, it risked the ire of highly organized media watchdogs on the religious right who would lead boycotts and threaten skittish advertisers. and it's about how the "makers" of the show didn't know it was happening: > Outside of a select few insiders, no one—including Aaron Spelling, Melrose’s legendary executive producer—knew what it was doing.
- jemmyw 3y ago> But I have yet to find a single viewer of Melrose Place who has any memory of seeing any of the artworks while watching the show. Pretty much sums it up. All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so radical, and nobody noticed anyway. They probably should have put their creative effort (not that I think the things listed in this are that creative) into something else.
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- yongjik 3y ago> All the effort of thought, hiding it from the producers, thinking themselves so radical, and nobody noticed anyway. And good for them! In this modern age of rage porn, someone would have noticed, started a twitter storm (or is it X storm now), and more likely than not, some people would have had their career ruined, just for having some fun at workspace. Sigh.
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- thegrim22 3y agoIf they want fewer people they obviously aren't doing a good job considering the population increases every single year.
- javajosh 3y agoThe best jokes need to be explained. /s Honestly, this reads more like a cautionary tale about subtle subversion: sometimes its so subtle it's invisible, and therefore wasted effort. This kind of subversion is "safe" and therefore useless, or worse than useless, since it still gives the catharsis of action without being effective.
- zardo 3y agoDid it actually go unnoticed? Obsessing over your favorite shows and talking about them online happened in the 90s too.
- baerrie 3y agoHow screens teach us goes beyond what we remember. Much like our views on race, gender, etc, we can’t pinpoint when we were told our “truth” it is an accumulation of sediment. By laying these artworks in there, they guided a little of that sediment for a lot of people, a cumulative effect that is hard to quantify but could be profound.
- tivert 3y ago> By laying these artworks in there, they guided a little of that sediment for a lot of people, a cumulative effect that is hard to quantify but could be profound. I really doubt they did. It was all too subtle. The effect was next to nothing.
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