So, they’re reviving MAX HEADROOM.

For nostalgia.

I watched Max Headroom, back in the day, and damned if I can remember anything about it except that there was an old punk with a mohawk and everybody freaked out one time when they discovered a television with an off switch. …So I guess this is irony? Or them being meta? Or possibly just desperate, and utterly starved of creative joy.

I know, I know: “Embrace the healing power of ‘and,’ Brother.”

8 thoughts on “So, they’re reviving MAX HEADROOM.”

  1. Ma. Mmma. Mmmax Headroom …
    Man, it’s been a while.
    .
    The ABC TV show was a bit contrived, a bit too kid-friendly .. no offense, youngster … and not nearly as biting as earlier Max bits .. and it was still a stinging rebuke of media from .. media.

    Given current trends, I have no idea how badly this will go awry / suck .. but I expect new depths to be plumbed.

    Mew

    p.s. do you recall The Highwayman ?
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Highwayman_(TV_series)

    1. I recall it. Cool truck. IIRC, we ranked it below Airwolf, but above KITT.
      (The less said about Blue Thunder, the better.)

      I cannot see modern media being self-aware enough to make anything but a mockery of Max Headroom.

      While we’re off topic…
      I was thinking about a playlist to try and explain Gen X mindsets to Gen Z.
      There are some obvious ones, like My Future’s So Bright and 99 Luftballoons, but brainstorming more obscure things promises to be entertaining. To kick things off:
      Concrete Blonde: Everybody Knows
      Ugly Kid Joe: I Hate Everything About You
      Blues Traveler: Hook

  2. I’m waiting for the return of Manimal. Right after they bring back the greatest show of the 80s – Tales of the Gold Monkey.

  4. > damned if I can remember anything about it

    It was partly about how media had taken over the culture and turned it into a dystopic wasteland.

    It was also partly about how Amanda Pays was a stone fox (well, for me, anyway).

    There’s a few reasons to think any attempted reboot will be a complete dumpster fire, perhaps chief among them that Matt Frewer was so iconic in the title role, it’s hard to imagine a replacement that wouldn’t pale in comparison.

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