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Crapp's avatar

On the time off at christmas viewing list, alongside the other one and that Leigh miner’s strike thing.

Nice one!

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Mike Hampton's avatar

Skip Xmas, watch Threads :)

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Dx's avatar

This scared the s**t out of me first time round (as did 'Survivors', a series about a flu-type pandemic originating in China that wipes out the majority of the population). In some ways 'Threads' was even more scary when I rewatched it recently.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

'Survivors' has been on my to-do list for a long time. Think there were two seasons.

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Dx's avatar

It's well worth a watch, but it's not easy going. It shows a variety of different responses to the apocalypse and doesn't shy away from difficult moral dilemmas. I think why I find it scarier now is realising that things that were normal in the mid-70s as a means of survival just aren't viable now: the ability to hand-pump fuel from a filling station, low-tech as standard, the practical skills that people took for granted, …

We started rewatching it during lockdown when we were in a particularly pessimistic and masochistic mood. I think we made it through the first 2 series…

What I hadn't expected was to notice how RP all the accents were. Apart from the strong regional accents of the obligatory ‘baddie’ or comedy characters, of course. At the time I just took it for granted that's how people on TV sounded.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

You've encouraged me. I'm moving it up my list (yes, I do lists), to be watched early next year.

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Jana L Stewart's avatar

Threads still haunts me to this day. It should be compulsory for everyone to help people understand the dangers we are facing in this toxic war torn world.

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Mike Hampton's avatar

It pleases me that several of you are horrified with me. Oxymorons allowed.

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