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Peddle Up!
Peddle Up! Posts: 2,040
edited February 2013 in The cake stop
I watched Threads last night for the first time since it was originally broadcast. A brilliant view on the effects of a nuclear strike on Sheffield and a window into a vanished world.
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  • rc856
    rc856 Posts: 1,144
    Haven't seen it since but from what I can remember, I watched it when I was quite young and then being terrified that that was how the world was going to end!
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    Yes it was memorable tv - it catches not only the paranoia and bleakness of the time but also the paranoia, mental instability and bleakness of reagan and thatcher.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • Phil Fouracre
    Phil Fouracre Posts: 207
    Interesting - not seen it before. Could be how it will all end, or maybe the weather will just get us!
  • RDW
    RDW Posts: 1,900
    Best horror film ever, mainly because it could actually happen.
    Cleat Eastwood wrote:
    Yes it was memorable tv - it catches not only the paranoia and bleakness of the time but also the paranoia, mental instability and bleakness of reagan and thatcher.

    'Edge of Darkness' is another great piece of 80s TV that manages this, though in a rather different way.

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