The Day After?
They forgot about that. It was one of the biggest television events of the 80s.
shareYou're right. I remember hearing about that movie. It goes with theist depressing movie I've ever seen, Testament. The network sounds like it went overboard when the day after aired. I read they even had an 800 number for people to call on who got freaked out about the movie. I'd like to think that an 80's audience would be smarter and more sophisticated than a 30's audience that went crazy after orson well's war of the world's broadcast.
shareIt was covered in the History Channel Eighties series narrated by Rob Lowe.
share...is almost too difficult to watch...and the short story, from which it was adapted, is even worse. It almost makes you want to walk under a bus and forget to wake up.
The story originally ran in Ms. magazine in the early Eighties (August, 1981???), and it's almost impossible to obtain a print copy anymore.
Even online, it's not easy to find. I tried, a few years ago, and it took quite a while. And it was just as depressing as when I first read it years ago, so awful that it almost made me cry.
🚋🚋 Just take that streetcar that's going uptown...