Wild Palms (1993)

Directed by

Keith Gordon

Genre

science fiction television series

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 5 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A political thriller set in a near-future where a virtual reality company is used to control the masses. A lawyer gets entangled with a secretive group that wants to exploit this technology for its own aims.

conspiratorialfuturisticparanoidtensecerebralvisually stylizeddarkslow-burn

What happens

Wild Palms is a five-hour miniseries which was produced by Greengrass Productions and first aired in May 1993 on the ABC network in the United States. The sci-fi drama, announced as an "event series", deals with the dangers of politically motivated abuse of mass media technology and virtual realities in particular. It is based on a comic strip written by Bruce Wagner and illustrated by Julian Allen first published in 1990 in Details magazine. Wagner, who also wrote the screenplay, served as executive producer together with Oliver Stone. The series stars James Belushi, Dana Delany, Robert Loggia, Kim Cattrall, Bebe Neuwirth, David Warner, and Angie Dickinson. The episodes were directed by Kathryn Bigelow, Keith Gordon, Peter Hewitt and Phil Joanou. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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