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Aug 3, 2023 · 6 An Early Frost. NBC. An Early Frost was released at a time when American society was going through a radical change. Riding along with the rising awareness of HIV/AIDs, the film made a hard ...
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- Stranger Things, Netflix
- Halt and Catch Fire, AMC
- The Americans, FX
- The Goldbergs, ABC
- Son of A Critch, CBC
- Freaks and Geeks, NBC
- Red Oaks, Amazon Prime Video
- This Is England ’86 (2010) and This Is England ’88 (2011), Channel 4
- Love, Nina, BBC One
- Wicked City, ABC
In the fictional town of Hawkins, Indiana in the early 1980s, Will Byers mysteriously disappears and at the same time, an unnamed girl with psychokinetic abilities suddenly turns up. Later dubbed Eleven by the group of boys that befriend her – Will’s best friends. As events in Netflix’s Stranger Things unfold, it’s soon revealed that a scientific r...
Unless you’re a computer engineer or programmer, it’s not likely that you’re familiar with the titular coding reference in AMC’s Halt and Catch Fire. To introduce the idiomatic phrase in layman’s terms, Halt and Catch Fire or HCF is basically a coding instruction given to a computer to stop operating and require a restart. Considering this was firs...
Following the inaugurations of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher in 1979 and President Ronald Reagan in 1981, the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the West rose to alarming heights and tensions continued to increase. It’s these several years, from 1981 to 1987, that serve as the backdrop for FX’s spy thriller, The Americans. Allowing for perspe...
Told primarily through the eyes (and video camera lens) of the youngest Goldberg, ABC’s The Goldbergsis a semi-autobiographical account of showrunner Adam Goldberg’s preadolescent and teenage years throughout the 1980s. It tells the story of everyday life with the Goldbergs – their overprotective mother Beverly, apathetic but caring father Murray, ...
If you want to enjoy a TV series set in the 1980s with a Canadian flair then look no further than CBC Television’s Son of a Critch. Based on Canadian comedian Mark Critch’s memoir of the same name, Son of a Critchfollows an 11-year-old Mark as he grows up in Canada’s easternmost province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the 80s. The coming of age st...
Freaks and Geeksis one of those gems that was canceled too early but still gained a loyal following, even two decades after it aired. Lindsay Weir is a gifted high school student attending William McKinley High School in Chippewa, Michigan, in 1980, with her younger brother Sam. In an attempt to turn her reputation from mathlete to rebel, she befri...
We all remember what it was like trying to plan our futures as college students: checking our options, looking for part-time jobs or internships, and the general anxiousness about the unknown. Well, Red Oaksbrings that to life for a young Jewish college student named David Myers. It’s 1985 and David takes a job at the Red Oaks Country Club in New J...
This is England ‘86 and This is England ‘88are the first two miniseries sequels, respectively, of the 2006 film of the same name. ‘86 takes place three years after the original movie and is set against the backdrop of the 1986 FIFA World Cup. Moving on from the skinhead subculture that was central to the movie, ‘86varies in its references between t...
Helena Bonham Carter is such a phenomenal character actress that it always takes some getting used to when she plays someone who’s, well, normal. In BBC One’s five-episode series Love, Nina, she plays George Bulut, a single mother whose character is based on the acclaimed editor of the London Review of Books, Mary-Kay Wilmers. Set in 1982, Love, Ni...
Along the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles during the early 1980s, the glitz and glamor of West Hollywood is dimmed by Kent Grainger, a serial killerwhose main goal – the most dangerous motive of all – is to gain notoriety through any means necessary. Detectives Jack Roth and Paco Contreras are put on the case and despite their personal history, they us...
1. The Goonies. 1985 1h 54m PG. 7.7 (299K) Rate. 62 Metascore. A group of young misfits called The Goonies discover an ancient map and set out on an adventure to find a legendary pirate's long-lost treasure. Director Richard Donner Stars Sean Astin Josh Brolin Jeff Cohen. Had this film on VHS and wore it out.
