Time capsule: 1987

[ormondsacker]

It was 1987 - Full Metal Jacket was just out, following Platoon last year. Clearly America loved grim, unflinching looks back at the US involvement in Vietnam.

It was 1987 - The A Team had just finished its run with its characters, "hunted by the government for a crime they did not commit", finally being cleared of robbing the Bank of Saigon.

Comments

[hellestal]

Did you read the YouTube comments? Most recent, a month ago:This show was terribly under-rated. I am not sure why. Maybe too patriotic for the left and not patriotic enough for the right. I thought it great.
Look! It found its audience, that hallowed group who could transcend the partisan divide and appreciate its half-ness for what it was. (Total size of this demographic: one person. Even worse: he's the sort who posts comments on YouTube.)

Also...... did you ever find out who that band was??

[ormondsacker]

Also...... did you ever find out who that band was??

I did not, but I picture the singer as some kind of horrifying, scowly, giant-lipped monster-man whose visage would send small children shrieking in terror. With any luck, he was locked away decades ago.