May 14, 2023
Maybe I'm biased as an 80s kid, but the first 7 episodes of Max Headroom: 20 Minutes Into the Future were amazing and still hold up 35 years later. In some ways, they're *more* relevant now, only if you consider social media instead of TV. Sure, there's some 80s cheese, but this was some really solid dystopian near-future sci-fi at a time when that wasn't terribly popular.
That's not to say the rest of the episodes were bad, but it got a little heavy-handed and it seems like they lost some budget in the second season. There were some hokey props and a *lot* of film reuse. Still some good plot points, like the monetization of education (see Sesame Street on HBO).