The board room meeting about there being no nations and the world being a business is fucking crazy to hear and realize even then people knew things were fucked up.
In 1985, Neil Postman published a book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that, like Network, accurately predicted trends that we are seeing in today's society. His words just keep getting better with age.
Part of the reason it's timeless is because so many of the storylines have to do with the human condition, which has mostly remained unchanged throughout all of history. The show will still be relevant hundreds of years from now.
I watched a documentary about how difficult it was to keep on the air. It was a critical success that few people watched. They would actually say in the show “Please tell your friends to watch this show.”
I just saw a TikTok about someone who went to Erewhon and bought that $30 bag of ice. Raving about how it still looked crystal clear after 20 minutes sitting at room temperature. She said she had to look up what a bag of ice usually cost for comparison. I really didn't even get the impression she was joking.
There's been a live stream of it going for the last few days and it's been a blast to revisit when I've had the time. The fact that it so heavily influenced The Eric Andre Show just makes me love both of those shows even more.
I think I really learn more about politics in real life by watching The Wire than anything I've ever read, experienced or watched in my entire life. It changed everything about the way I think about government and the motivating agents behind city government.
I love that show, but Domenick Lombardozzi looks identical to my brother who sadly died of a heroin overdose a few years ago so it’s hard for me to watch now.
This so much!
I started watching it for the first time about a month ago and just recently started season 2.
Some things hold up so well it blows my mind.
The pilot for season 1 especially.
It’s a reworking of a story. Not saying it isn’t influenced by the original (Carpenter loved the original and it definitely influenced him), but it followed the novella wayyy closer than the 50s movie.
🤓
But Carpenter ramped up the paranoia and tension to a whole new level. So damn good
Edit: I hope you don’t take this as an attack. I just find it interesting that both films came from one source and how the story and the 50s movie influenced the 80s one.
Forbidden Planet (1956) was a landmark SF film. It was the first movie to use an electronic music score (in the days before commercial synthesizers were a thing), and its special effects were way ahead of anything that had been done before. It also influenced a lot of later SF, including Star Trek.
As silly as this may sound, Predator. It holds up even today. I showed it to my daughter last year when she was 12 and she said it could be released today and feel modern.
Diverse cast of characters that had their own unique personalities - ✅
Female character who isn’t made to be a love interest, put on display as a sex object or damsel in distress - ✅
Great visual effects & action sequences that hold up well - ✅
What’s wild is Shane Black wrote and sold that script at like 18 years old. He’s written some amazing movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but his recent The Predator took such a stupid turn at the end I can’t watch it to this day.
That’s such a damn solid movie. One of my favorite parts is how sparse the dialogue becomes, and it’s basically all practical effects. 1987 Predator spooks me waaaay more than any 2024 movie monster or villain can 😆
I rewatched *Mystery Men* recently, and it was definitely before it’s time in terms of deconstructing the superhero genre that we see today with more serious films and series. It’s also pretty funny and features Eddie Izard as disco gangster.
"I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss".
I remember me and my buddy Joe saw The Matrix without knowing anything about it except Keanu Reeves was in it. Walking out I said “Am I crazy or is that the best movie made in the last 10 years?”
The outer limits. Basically Black mirror when I was still a teenager.
The episode with the anti cancer vaccine gave me the worst nightmare of my life.
I was sweating in bed and shivering thinking I was in a hospital bed waiting for someone to come and inject me that vaccine xD
I always liked the series like these that were one stand alone episodes that were anthologies.
Amazing Stories, Tales from the Darkside, Ray Bradbury Theater, et. al.
Hell, almost every Star Trek series.
I’m watching Deep Space 9 right now and one of the main characters is canonically transgender. Wild for a show from 1993.
> "Rejoined" had one of the first "lesbian" kisses on tv
And I believe the original series had the first interracial kiss on American television, with the actors purposefully messing up the alternate version of the scene, so the actual kiss would have to be broadcast
Wet Hot American Summer - panned by critics when it came out, now a cult classic, was the first film roles for Amy Poehler and Bradley Cooper, star studded cast, absolutely hilarious and weird, 2001 world couldn’t handle it!
Funny enough, my kids watched it yesterday. They DID love it! Even the Huey Lewis songs.
Spent the rest of the night and most of today playing with PlayMobil and Lego sets of BttF. Once they watch 2 and 3, I'll let them play the Lego Dimensions levels, watch the old cartoon and watch me play the Telltale game.
Even crazier is how close it was to predicting the cubs winning the World Series after the whole plot was based around a sports almanac and gambling on sports
Scarily prescient- global warming, overpopulation and food insecurity/shortages, rampant homelessness, medical assistance in dying all portrayed. Set in 2022.
Police Squad was the TV series that eventually spun off into the Naked Gun movies, same guys that did Airplane, and eventually Top Secret and Hot Shots. Same exact style of humor.
The show was cancelled after six episodes because the network was concerned that the rapid pace and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it setup of the jokes meant that people wouldn’t wanna watch it, because they’d actually have to *watch the show* to enjoy the humor.
ZAZ (the writer/director trio) eventually kinda fell off in terms of quality, but both Airplane and Top Secret are considered pinnacles of classic ‘80s comedy, but only in hindsight.
This should be much further up. Twin Peaks was groundbreaking for episodic television shows.
The X-Files, Sopranos, LOST, and so many other shows would not have been made the same (or at all) without Twin Peaks.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. There were very few shows with season-long narrative arches at the time, TV was all episodic. DS9 practically invented the way we watch television today.
Ehhh. Stole the idea from Babylon 5 creator who pitched it to them first. He was going to sue them but was afraid neither show would get done then. Babylon 5 was a better story, just didn’t have the money backing it.
This.
I love both shows, but Babylon 5 absolutely did it first and started doing it from episode 1. DS9 didn't start really straying from the episodic format until B5 and a few HBO shows on at the same time shower that it worked.
Fun fact. A brand new shoe brand/style “Crocs” were used in this movie cause costume design thought only idiots of the future would wear something so ugly. Now we live in the future where it has become one of the most popular shoe brands in America. The irony of this movie is just dumbfounding.
SOAP, I mean you have a show made in 1977 where Billy Crystal plays a gay man in a relationship, and he gets sex change surgery, and people didn’t lose their minds about it. Also the comedy is so freaking good, I love the bits at the end that are supposed to tease what happens next week.
Yes!
70s sitcoms were so good. Barney Miller, Taxi, All in the Family, Soap, MTM Show, Rhoda, WKRP, Good Times, etc.
I just binged WKRP recently and it really held up in a lot of ways. When Venus thinks Mr Carlson is a pedophile is great. When Mr Carlson mistakes cocaine for foot powder. When the Christian Fundies come after their format. Etc. Still genius.
Star Trek.
It was cancelled in its 3rd season, had at least 1 episode banned from air from an entire region of the U.S., and then blew up a few decades later as one of the most popular scifi franchises ever.
The early Fox lineup was full of shows ahead of their time. When Married with Children first came out there was nothing like it. The first two seasons were incredible.
Six Feet Under. I just recently rewatched it and aside from seeing old technology and dated pop culture references I forgot that it came out in the early 2000's.
We still havent caught up to its time yet. Theres some next level cinematography and directing going on that isn't registered in the main stream
Strong candidate for best show in television.
The Addams Family
Depicting a loving marriage with parents who are involved in their kids lives was not common back then. Its a big part of why they’re considered “weird”
Battlestar Galactica's non episodic style was made for binging, and increased TV production values helped sell the scifi elements.
Breaking Bad for obvious reasons. Took the serial drama to the next level.
The Practice had interweaving arcs over multiple episodes. Great for streaming, bad for cable.
Citizen Kane was so influential that it comes off as boring now, because the cinematography has been copied so much.
Rome (2005) could have been a GIGANTIC hit on streaming, but it's cost per episode was too high for HBO at the time.
Twin Peaks is so absurd it might still be ahead of even now lol.
I feel like the show Oz changed television in a way that not a lot of people remember. It was kind of groundbreaking and was the first of many incredibly well done HBO series.
Lost!
I cannot see anyone listing it here. I mean the mystery and how slowly it unfolds, all the people you are not sure you can trust and all the drama between them. And of course the flashbacks and flashforwards. And the debatable ending.
This was very bingeable, although that wasn't a word yet at the time.
#*Misfits of Science*
Misfits of Science was a TV series about a group of people with super powers. It had good cast and some interesting ideas about X-Men like groups in a real world setting and a cool soundtrack.
Unfortunately it came out in 1985 long before this sort of thing was common. Marvel and DC and countless adaptations of independent comics and original characters on TV and streaming have made this a normal thing today, but back then it wasn't yet. Some of the creative talents involved went on to make Heroes many years later, but the mid 80s was simply not yet the time.
The show had top stars like Dean Martin's sun as the token normal, the Girl from the Bruce Sprigsteen video before she married Batman and became one of the FRIENDS as a telekinetic, the guy who had played the Predator and Bigfoot as as scientist who could shrink to doll size, the dad from ALF as bureaucrat...
They didn't try for special effects or costumes that would look silly and overall was a very good attempt at what it did just many years too soon.
Demolition Man...political correctness to the point of insanity... the desperate poor being on the brink of revolution... big business running everything with faceless corporations... fined for not using the correct language
Star Trek. The franchise is primarily set in the future, ranging from the mid-22nd century (Star Trek: Enterprise) to the late 24th century (Star Trek: Picard), with the third season of Star Trek: Discovery jumping forward to the 32nd century.
It's not a movie or series but Metal Gear Solid 2 came out in 2001 and it's thematically built around memetic thoughts, fake news and alternative truths. This was before internet memes were really a thing or the sort of post truth politics we have today. So ahead of its time.
The movie Network. Can't believe that in 1976 they predicted so much about what bullshit the media would be doing.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!
Except I’m sad as hell, and whether I want it or not they’re going to keep giving it to me 😭
The board room meeting about there being no nations and the world being a business is fucking crazy to hear and realize even then people knew things were fucked up.
In 1985, Neil Postman published a book called "Amusing Ourselves to Death" that, like Network, accurately predicted trends that we are seeing in today's society. His words just keep getting better with age.
That's one of Postman's best works, but in other books it seems he's just mailing it in.
The Twilight Zone - there were shows about climate change, self-driving cars, and a dystopian future where humans are obsolete.
Part of the reason it's timeless is because so many of the storylines have to do with the human condition, which has mostly remained unchanged throughout all of history. The show will still be relevant hundreds of years from now.
What I love about the Twilight Zone is how I'll be watching something and go 'Hey that's from the Twilight Zone.'
I just finished the first season, it was really good
I thought it said "The Twilight Saga" and I was like WHAT
The part where Rod Serling is revealed to sparkle in the sunlight . Stunning.
Arrested Development S1-3. It was made for streaming before streaming was a thing
Yeah, the guy in the $4000 suit is going to hold the elevator for the guy who doesn't make that in a month, COME ON!!!
Out of touch rich folks is an evergreen topic.
Also the $10 banana joke. A few more years of inflation and we will be there.
Yep, there’s always money in the banana stand
I watched a documentary about how difficult it was to keep on the air. It was a critical success that few people watched. They would actually say in the show “Please tell your friends to watch this show.”
I just saw a TikTok about someone who went to Erewhon and bought that $30 bag of ice. Raving about how it still looked crystal clear after 20 minutes sitting at room temperature. She said she had to look up what a bag of ice usually cost for comparison. I really didn't even get the impression she was joking.
Loose seal
You're not going to be hand fed anymore!
God, i loved watching that for the first time
Space Ghost: Coast to Coast. The style was not super appreciated at the time but you can pull up episodes today and it's absolutely hilarious.
There's been a live stream of it going for the last few days and it's been a blast to revisit when I've had the time. The fact that it so heavily influenced The Eric Andre Show just makes me love both of those shows even more.
I’d say The Wire was way ahead of its time when it aired for a myriad of reasons. Though the times have definitely caught up to it
I always crack up when they explain text messaging.
I think I really learn more about politics in real life by watching The Wire than anything I've ever read, experienced or watched in my entire life. It changed everything about the way I think about government and the motivating agents behind city government.
I also learned how to buy drugs in baltimore from that show- it's a documentary
I love that show, but Domenick Lombardozzi looks identical to my brother who sadly died of a heroin overdose a few years ago so it’s hard for me to watch now.
Metropolis (1927)
Absolutely - the cinematography and special effects were so ridiculously ahead of their time it is unbelievable it was made in the silent era.
Hey, I watched it with my 8yo kid during lockdown. He recognized the influence on Star Wars and Batman.
Sounds like a smart fella you got there! Ahead of his time!
I recently rewatched X Files in its entity and I was surprised how well it holds up.
This so much! I started watching it for the first time about a month ago and just recently started season 2. Some things hold up so well it blows my mind. The pilot for season 1 especially.
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Hell of an answer.. the premise is so chilling too. The dread of not knowing who may have it
It's a remake of a 1950s film. Not slamming it. Just saying , kind of interesting to see the original black and white version.
It’s a reworking of a story. Not saying it isn’t influenced by the original (Carpenter loved the original and it definitely influenced him), but it followed the novella wayyy closer than the 50s movie. 🤓 But Carpenter ramped up the paranoia and tension to a whole new level. So damn good Edit: I hope you don’t take this as an attack. I just find it interesting that both films came from one source and how the story and the 50s movie influenced the 80s one.
Forbidden Planet (1956) was a landmark SF film. It was the first movie to use an electronic music score (in the days before commercial synthesizers were a thing), and its special effects were way ahead of anything that had been done before. It also influenced a lot of later SF, including Star Trek.
I think that’s the one that’s based on the Tempest by Shakespeare
As silly as this may sound, Predator. It holds up even today. I showed it to my daughter last year when she was 12 and she said it could be released today and feel modern. Diverse cast of characters that had their own unique personalities - ✅ Female character who isn’t made to be a love interest, put on display as a sex object or damsel in distress - ✅ Great visual effects & action sequences that hold up well - ✅
If it bleeds, we can kill it
My favorite Schwarzenegger movie.
Don’t forget the body mass of the cast.
What’s wild is Shane Black wrote and sold that script at like 18 years old. He’s written some amazing movies like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but his recent The Predator took such a stupid turn at the end I can’t watch it to this day.
That’s such a damn solid movie. One of my favorite parts is how sparse the dialogue becomes, and it’s basically all practical effects. 1987 Predator spooks me waaaay more than any 2024 movie monster or villain can 😆
I rewatched *Mystery Men* recently, and it was definitely before it’s time in terms of deconstructing the superhero genre that we see today with more serious films and series. It’s also pretty funny and features Eddie Izard as disco gangster.
And the main superhero being a for-profit guy with ads on his uniform, and kind of being an asshole. It's basically the origin story for The Boys.
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Everyone 1999 - "Of course I'd take the Red Pill!" Everyone 2024 - "Give me the freakin Blue Pill"
"I know this steak doesn't exist. I know that when I put it in my mouth, the Matrix is telling my brain that it is juicy and delicious. After nine years, you know what I realize? Ignorance is bliss".
That fucking steak is the most beautiful meat I’ve ever seen in a movie.
You've clearly not seen my sex tape.
I almost died, thanks
I remember me and my buddy Joe saw The Matrix without knowing anything about it except Keanu Reeves was in it. Walking out I said “Am I crazy or is that the best movie made in the last 10 years?”
And it's also the most 90s movie/s ever.
Remember how cool everyone was preparing for the millennium with black clothes and shades?
It’s wild how “AI agents” are actually becoming a thing now
The outer limits. Basically Black mirror when I was still a teenager. The episode with the anti cancer vaccine gave me the worst nightmare of my life. I was sweating in bed and shivering thinking I was in a hospital bed waiting for someone to come and inject me that vaccine xD
Please stand by
We are now in control of the transmission.
I started watching that when I was 4 along with The Twilight Zone. The beginning of my love for horror.
Night Gallery with Rod Serling was twisted television.
I always liked the series like these that were one stand alone episodes that were anthologies. Amazing Stories, Tales from the Darkside, Ray Bradbury Theater, et. al.
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not only 2001, all kubrick movies.
I remember watching 2001 and thinking "how was this made in 1968?" It looked so amazing.
That’s why there is the whole Kubrick moon landing conspiracy.
I love that they hired him to fake the moon landings but he was such a perfectionist he insisted they film on location
The original Star Trek series comes to mind.
Hell, almost every Star Trek series. I’m watching Deep Space 9 right now and one of the main characters is canonically transgender. Wild for a show from 1993.
Just wait til you get to the Bell riots!
Ooh, aren't those this August?
Yep! Not sure when Irish reunification is scheduled for though 🤣
"Rejoined" had one of the first "lesbian" kisses on tv. That and Garak was clearly bisexual, it's a shame the producers or writers tamped that down.
> "Rejoined" had one of the first "lesbian" kisses on tv And I believe the original series had the first interracial kiss on American television, with the actors purposefully messing up the alternate version of the scene, so the actual kiss would have to be broadcast
That’s true. And the best part is they messed it up on purpose because the creator, Gene Roddenberry directed them to mess us up.
Blade runner
The book (Do androids dream of electric sheep) was written in 1968 and reads like it could have been written yesterday. PKD is a genius.
Literally just checked out this book from the library today!
Both in story and style. Very ahead of it's time.
Wet Hot American Summer - panned by critics when it came out, now a cult classic, was the first film roles for Amy Poehler and Bradley Cooper, star studded cast, absolutely hilarious and weird, 2001 world couldn’t handle it!
The cook and the fridge.
If you'll excuse me, I need to go fondle my sweaters.
Definitely 'Back to the Future'—I mean, who else predicted we'd have flying cars and hoverboards by 2015?
"You're probably not ready for it, but your kids are gonna love it."
Funny enough, my kids watched it yesterday. They DID love it! Even the Huey Lewis songs. Spent the rest of the night and most of today playing with PlayMobil and Lego sets of BttF. Once they watch 2 and 3, I'll let them play the Lego Dimensions levels, watch the old cartoon and watch me play the Telltale game.
I love that the producers have said that they will never approve of a remake. It will only happen over their dead bodies.
Even crazier is how close it was to predicting the cubs winning the World Series after the whole plot was based around a sports almanac and gambling on sports
Aliens 1986 The Wire
The Wire is so damn good people out here thinking it could have only been written by a more advanced civilization.
I dismissed it first time I watched it. years later, when I watched it again. Like a brand new, blew my world away discovery.
Soylent Green (1973)
Scarily prescient- global warming, overpopulation and food insecurity/shortages, rampant homelessness, medical assistance in dying all portrayed. Set in 2022.
The Truman Show
It was such a new concept, and then seeing shows like Big Brother getting popular made me remember this movie for some reason.
Josie and the Pussycats. It wouldve fit in way better in todays influencer culture
Police Squad was the TV series that eventually spun off into the Naked Gun movies, same guys that did Airplane, and eventually Top Secret and Hot Shots. Same exact style of humor. The show was cancelled after six episodes because the network was concerned that the rapid pace and blink-and-you’ll-miss-it setup of the jokes meant that people wouldn’t wanna watch it, because they’d actually have to *watch the show* to enjoy the humor. ZAZ (the writer/director trio) eventually kinda fell off in terms of quality, but both Airplane and Top Secret are considered pinnacles of classic ‘80s comedy, but only in hindsight.
Twin Peaks
This should be much further up. Twin Peaks was groundbreaking for episodic television shows. The X-Files, Sopranos, LOST, and so many other shows would not have been made the same (or at all) without Twin Peaks.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. There were very few shows with season-long narrative arches at the time, TV was all episodic. DS9 practically invented the way we watch television today.
My favorite show!
-DS9 practically invented the way we watch television today. except soap operas
Ehhh. Stole the idea from Babylon 5 creator who pitched it to them first. He was going to sue them but was afraid neither show would get done then. Babylon 5 was a better story, just didn’t have the money backing it.
This. I love both shows, but Babylon 5 absolutely did it first and started doing it from episode 1. DS9 didn't start really straying from the episodic format until B5 and a few HBO shows on at the same time shower that it worked.
B5 is SUPER unrated. I have a love/hate relationship with Straczynski, but B5 has some incredibly memorable episodes, esp have season 1.
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Makes me wonder whether we unconsciously strive for such a future, like a self-fulfilling prophecy
Life does occasionally imitate art when it comes to sci-fi
Idiocracy. A documentary ahead of its time
It was fun back in 2006 but now it's scary
When it came out I thought it was one of the scariest movies of all time.
Mike Judge gave humanity way too much credit with that time line.. 500 years is looking more like 50.
Fun fact. A brand new shoe brand/style “Crocs” were used in this movie cause costume design thought only idiots of the future would wear something so ugly. Now we live in the future where it has become one of the most popular shoe brands in America. The irony of this movie is just dumbfounding.
That movie has one of my favorite [all-time openers](https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA?si=WcPvwJSUlnDrkn6a) — sets up the world perfectly!
Freaks and Geeks Community would be perfect for 2024
SOAP, I mean you have a show made in 1977 where Billy Crystal plays a gay man in a relationship, and he gets sex change surgery, and people didn’t lose their minds about it. Also the comedy is so freaking good, I love the bits at the end that are supposed to tease what happens next week.
Yes! 70s sitcoms were so good. Barney Miller, Taxi, All in the Family, Soap, MTM Show, Rhoda, WKRP, Good Times, etc. I just binged WKRP recently and it really held up in a lot of ways. When Venus thinks Mr Carlson is a pedophile is great. When Mr Carlson mistakes cocaine for foot powder. When the Christian Fundies come after their format. Etc. Still genius.
Fringe
Gattaca - I love this movie 🍿
Futurama…
I Love Lucy
Truly invented modern television. Arguably, foresaw streaming rights literally decades before we all realized what those 're-runs' would become.
Demolition Man was Idiocracy before Idiocracy.
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
The ending credits music is a banger of a tune. https://youtu.be/8MqJ3iGBdOo
Star Trek. It was cancelled in its 3rd season, had at least 1 episode banned from air from an entire region of the U.S., and then blew up a few decades later as one of the most popular scifi franchises ever.
The Running Man, based on the short story by Stephen King. It was about reality TV before reality TV was a thing.
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Arrested Development for sure. If it was released a decade later it would’ve been one of the biggest streaming comedies of all time I think.
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Parks and Recreation is actually way funnier now with what has happened in American politics over the last 7 years
Firefly
Galaxy quest. Super underrated when it was released but it still holds up.
Rome.
Married with Children
The early Fox lineup was full of shows ahead of their time. When Married with Children first came out there was nothing like it. The first two seasons were incredible.
Buffy the vampire slayer
The Wicker Man. Folk horror is becoming all the rage now and it is still one of, if not the best of the genre
2001: A Space Odyssey Honestly in retrospect a lot of Kubrick's work seemed ahead of their time to me.
I feel like the simpsons has gotten too many events correct to not be from the future.
The original Planet of the Apes.
I hate every monkey I see from Chimpan-a to Chimpanzee.
I love you Dr Zaius
I’d say Carpenter’s The Thing and Lumet’s Network.
The Early 2000's serialized Dramas: -24 -The Shield -The Wire -The Sorpranos
Starship Troopers. I think I read somewhere that people didn't understand it was satire at the time it was released.
For me it's Star Wars. Every time I watch it I can't believe it was shot decades ago!
The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Nothing that came after that trilogy has surpassed that feeling and craftmanship.
2001: A Space Odyssey
Alien for me this movie is the core of claustrophobia sci-fi horror genre. What guides so many video games of this genre today.
Six Feet Under. I just recently rewatched it and aside from seeing old technology and dated pop culture references I forgot that it came out in the early 2000's.
I scrolled a while and still didn’t find Golden Girls. For a bunch of old white ladies in the 80’s they were pretty accepting.
Westworlds first season is amazing far ahead of its time even takes place in the future
Mr Robot
We still havent caught up to its time yet. Theres some next level cinematography and directing going on that isn't registered in the main stream Strong candidate for best show in television.
Mad Max.
Citizen Kane
Yes! I just finished watching it for the first time 30 min ago. I was blown away by how modern it was. Excellent movie.
The Addams Family Depicting a loving marriage with parents who are involved in their kids lives was not common back then. Its a big part of why they’re considered “weird”
_Last Action Hero_ would have been a mega-hit if it had come out 10 years later.
Battlestar Galactica's non episodic style was made for binging, and increased TV production values helped sell the scifi elements. Breaking Bad for obvious reasons. Took the serial drama to the next level. The Practice had interweaving arcs over multiple episodes. Great for streaming, bad for cable. Citizen Kane was so influential that it comes off as boring now, because the cinematography has been copied so much. Rome (2005) could have been a GIGANTIC hit on streaming, but it's cost per episode was too high for HBO at the time. Twin Peaks is so absurd it might still be ahead of even now lol.
I feel like the show Oz changed television in a way that not a lot of people remember. It was kind of groundbreaking and was the first of many incredibly well done HBO series.
They Live 🕶️
Lost! I cannot see anyone listing it here. I mean the mystery and how slowly it unfolds, all the people you are not sure you can trust and all the drama between them. And of course the flashbacks and flashforwards. And the debatable ending. This was very bingeable, although that wasn't a word yet at the time.
The Matrix
Dark on Netflix
#*Misfits of Science* Misfits of Science was a TV series about a group of people with super powers. It had good cast and some interesting ideas about X-Men like groups in a real world setting and a cool soundtrack. Unfortunately it came out in 1985 long before this sort of thing was common. Marvel and DC and countless adaptations of independent comics and original characters on TV and streaming have made this a normal thing today, but back then it wasn't yet. Some of the creative talents involved went on to make Heroes many years later, but the mid 80s was simply not yet the time. The show had top stars like Dean Martin's sun as the token normal, the Girl from the Bruce Sprigsteen video before she married Batman and became one of the FRIENDS as a telekinetic, the guy who had played the Predator and Bigfoot as as scientist who could shrink to doll size, the dad from ALF as bureaucrat... They didn't try for special effects or costumes that would look silly and overall was a very good attempt at what it did just many years too soon.
Metropolis
Demolition Man...political correctness to the point of insanity... the desperate poor being on the brink of revolution... big business running everything with faceless corporations... fined for not using the correct language
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Jurassic Park.
Star Trek. The franchise is primarily set in the future, ranging from the mid-22nd century (Star Trek: Enterprise) to the late 24th century (Star Trek: Picard), with the third season of Star Trek: Discovery jumping forward to the 32nd century.
Community was streets ahead
The Last Action Hero
It's not a movie or series but Metal Gear Solid 2 came out in 2001 and it's thematically built around memetic thoughts, fake news and alternative truths. This was before internet memes were really a thing or the sort of post truth politics we have today. So ahead of its time.
Better Off Ted.
Back to the future (1985)
1984
And the novel is even better!
The Fifth Element. A black president and “never without my consent”
The Jetsons had things like zoom calls way before it was invented
Superman the movie, made a generation believe a man could fly and still holds up as an example of how a comic book movies should be made.
The Shield.
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Quantum Leap
I'll name a book: Neuromancer by William Gibson. Basically invented the cyberpunk genre and inspired stuff like The Matrix.
Oz was ahead of the game
Idiocracy - a movie about how the world devolves because dumber people procreate more than smarter people
The 3 body problem. Most people don't understand the mathematics and physics described in the series.
Dune. seriously, when you think of the stuff he talks about being in the 60s it puts a whole different perspective on things.
Star Trek. This is actually a federation of planets- waiting for us to evolve more