Philip K Dick's Electric Dreams

[Mungo Terry]

It's been pretty terrible so far, especially crazy diamond. The short story was a fairly straight forward bit of satire on a future of hyper invasive advertising and enforced protection racket style consumerism driving a chap to the brink, god knows what last nights episode was about, human pig hybrids wtf?

[Arun_D]

First one I gave up on. Just wasn't engaged with at all.

[Hammerhead]

Mungo Terry said:

It's been pretty terrible so far, especially crazy diamond. The short story was a fairly straight forward bit of satire on a future of hyper invasive advertising and enforced protection racket style consumerism driving a chap to the brink, god knows what last nights episode was about, human pig hybrids wtf?

I thought the episode DID capture those points you made: their food engineered not to keep = all the waste being collected daily. Not being able to grow their own bar simple cress in their fridge or a sprouting potato (which was illegal), the very pushy sales woman taking their money and therefore denying their ability to escape/retire earlier/make sure their dreams were never realised. Get a promotion, move to a better area etc etc. The the human/pig hybrids were there to show what could happen if society goes further than just making new body parts in the lab. Opening up society to more division yet treating all like lab rats in a pre-defined maze from beginning to end. The Jack & Jills especially well suited to high pressure sales work before they 'fail'.

[anonymous-user]

I think we are used to SciFi being blunt. This series is subtle relies on the watcher drawing their own conclusions. I think it will take time and require another viewing to really enjoy the subtlety.

[Halb]

So Jill and the wife ran off together and chucked Steve overboard?

[K12beano]

Well I quite liked the first quarter of that one last night...

Still think Dimension 404 has a much more contemporary feel to it; electric dreams is little more than the short story premise thrown at you and then drawn out....

You could fit two or four in an hour long show.

[Halb]

Just watched the last two eps. Bryan Cranston was very good, as ever, as was Essie Davies. Probably the best ep, though I really did start to enjoy the real life ep with Anna Paquin and original Jim Rhodes, i really believed him in his reverie to his wife.

[Matt_N]

Forgot to post at the time but I really enjoyed Real Life too.

[kev1974]

Was it? Ch4 kept that quiet.

[Butter Face]

kev1974 said:

Was it? Ch4 kept that quiet.

I think he means a repeat of S1 rather than a second series.

[Hammerhead]

Not a repeat, a new episode called 'The Father Thing'. Some nice touches in there referencing PKD and some very odd police advice : o

[Matt_N]

Butter Face said:

I think he means a repeat of S1 rather than a second series.

Nope, this is Eps 7 onwards.

[popeyewhite]

ash73 said:

Glad to see this is back on, enjoyed tonight's episode; Super-8 X-Files mashup.

I was wondering when the rest of the series would be broadcast.

[Butter Face]

Matt_N said:

Butter Face said:

I think he means a repeat of S1 rather than a second series.

Nope, this is Eps 7 onwards.

Damnit! Got it downloaded to watch tomorrow!

[joema]

That was good fun. Certainly better than the ones I vaguely remember.

Loved the traps the kids set. A bit home alone.

[lufbramatt]

Good fun that one. Beginning reminded me of Day of the Triffids.

[defblade]

I enjoyed, but I'm not convinced PKD wrote Invasion of the Body Snatchers

[lufbramatt]

Apparently the PKD short story pre dates invasion of the body snatchers by 2 years :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father-thing

[defblade]

lufbramatt said:

Apparently the PKD short story pre dates invasion of the body snatchers by 2 years :-)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Father-thing

Well, I take it all back!

I tend to think of PKD as 60's and IofBS as 50's, I'm obviously not old enough to get it right

I also find the Capgras delusion fascinating, which could be another reading of the same story (until you get to the pods!)

[Hammerhead]

Anyone watch Autofac last night? Apart from the clunky start/village characters, that was quite a good episode. More than a hint of irony that it was produced with the help of Amazon..