Miniseries analyzing the Cold War in seven parts. Narration tells the story, over video footage from/about the direct topic.
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Miniseries analyzing the Cold War in seven parts. Narration tells the story, over video footage from/about the direct topic.
John Randall made the cavity magnetron produce small electromagnetic waves at an acceptable amount, and then Percy Spencer stood so close to one that his candy bar melted—and this inspired him to take the cavity magnetron and turn it into a food cooker. By 1967, the “microwave oven” was small enough and cheap enough for the home; families could prepare food faster, and eat TV dinners, leading to the decline of Family Dinners and the rise of Primetime Television audiences.
A four-act story that’s actually three acts; grouchy grandpa; a snowy road film; a get-together gone sour, except for the parts that go surprisingly well; and, uh, doge, for some reason—et al.
Baby’s First Screenplay; Solomon Grundy v. Calvin Coolidge; a movie about the movie not being told right, and constantly showing different versions of the same scene over and over again until the movie ends; and what it’s like to live in the catch-all cinematic universe as a background character, just trying to navigate the day-to-day while everyone around you has chaotic, high-stakes adventures—et al.
Eugenics in politics but for real; face-changing in cyberpunk-America’s northeasternmost Undercity; the envious pseudo-twin embedded in your shoulder blade; a stupid dream with a Peter Stormare cameo, and an even stupider dream that tries to make tension out of a crowd functioning like a salmon run.
A narrative that jumps to new protagonists for every chapter, but ties it all together in the end; a high-production version of The Man From Earth; the Disney Channel Original Movie Smart House except a social commentary on The Patriot Act and the Internet of Things; more prescient tales about Trump; the world except without the invention of sleep; Russian negligence getting some plucky vacationers ejected into the void of space—et al.
The Dark Knight meets Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy; the age of sail, but for kids; some ideas inspired by The Town; a couple ideas that were accidentally prescient of the Trump Administration; an actual incidence of crazy topping crazy; and a stupid dream about tree-people destined for one another—et al.
The Siege of Boston and the Boston Bombing; the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Challenger disaster; Prisoners of War and subterranean labor strikers; English, Canadian, and American getaway artists, creepy-ass twins, and the mythologized mystery of the Roanoke Colony—et al.
Black Caesar, William Jennings Bryan, the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, Huey Long, Shaka, Slobodan Milošević, and three great Johns—Brown, Denver, and F. Kennedy—et al.
Each chapter is a single scene, taking place on the next day of the week and another eight years later, exploring a man’s state-of-mind at different stages of his life—from a desperate, doubtful youth to a satisfied family man.
Holy shit—this idea for a Trumpian candidate vying for a presidential party nomination, in a mutually loathsome but symbiotic relationship with his kingmakers, preceded the 2016 election results... I had no idea what was coming, or how much worse it could get… This greatly changes the lens through which this would be written.
Stănescu’s death is a mystery to French authorities; they are baffled as to how he was killed in close-quarters combat by a French weapon. Eliahu finishes the remainder of his service and is honorably discharged from the French Foreign Legion in 1958.
“The apex of Yezhov's career was reached on 20 December 1937, when the party hosted a giant gala to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the NKVD at the Bolshoi Theater. Enormous banners with portraits of Stalin hung side-by-side with those of Yezhov. … Yezhov may well have also realized the danger he was in from such a lavish display of independent public praise; Stalin was always deeply suspicious of the public popularity and political ambitions of his immediate subordinates, and he was present at the event, observing the scene ‘silently and without expression’ from his private box.”
I’m a glutton for “wanting to retell historical stories in the form of biopics and miniseries” but, since I don’t have access to a production studio and Scrooge McDuck’s doubloon vault, just wait for the inevitable podcast series on the topic. Anyway, here are some of those.
Two friends and I exchanged “secondary objectives” for each other to complete during the span of their “Main Quest” a.k.a. their life.