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Love this post. Adding a whole bunch of things to my watch list. One thing I don't see mentioned is the TV mini series "Wild Palms". I remember watching that a
by flanbiscuit 3y ago
Love this post. Adding a whole bunch of things to my watch list.
One thing I don't see mentioned is the TV mini series "Wild Palms". I remember watching that as it debuted on TV back in '93. Haven't seen it since though. I remember Kim Cattrall being in it and I remember VR being a big part of the plot.
In looking it up I had no idea that Ryuichi Sakamoto created the music for it.
Here's a trailer for it. It looks so bad now:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMPCGo42cE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJMPCGo42cE
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wild_Palms
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106175/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106175/
- atombender 3y agoAnd William Gibson has a small cameo as himself. I remember the show as being quite good, but I suspect it's not aged well.
- stevenwoo 3y agoThat’s interesting because he just had a cameo in third season of Upload as himself, too.
- flanbiscuit 3y agoTook me a moment to recognize him when I watched that episode.
- dcminter 3y agoI was mesmerised by the trailers but never watched it for some reason. I know it can never live up to my imagined version! I daren't even watch that trailer :)
- EvanAnderson 3y agoWild Palms was a real disappointment from a sci-fi perspective. I felt like VR was just a "tech the tech" kind of adjunct instead of actually being integral to the story. Other generic technologies or mysticism could have been plugged-in and it wouldn't have made any difference.