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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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