Braindead was Television's most Prescient Series to date in Predicting the Rapid and Severe Dest
🦗💣My mind is blown (not in the way of those depicted in this series)! Yoko Ono said “the spirit of art is to express the truth”. To expand, I’d suggest art captures potential truths in new ways that help us understand aspects of our world that we may not have been able to grasp were they conveyed without creativity. Art helps us think more thoughts. This satire/comedy/horror succeeds in the first three episodes (we’ll see how it continues to unfold). It perfectly depicts the way people think and behave as they try to function among other humans.
It amplifies the role biology plays in shaping the human
reactions that end up, collectively, comprising each individual’s identity. Space bugs that infect brains end up trumping environmental conditioning and spiritual decline. Also, some characters luck out and the bugs fart so their brains just explode really fast and they leave instead of having to play out the rest of the series attacking each other and guarding against attack. But the rest is an accurate depiction — eerily even drawing from the same rhetorical examples — of the ever increasing extremism that continues to define our lives two years later. 🐜🐜🐜
It’s nearly impossible for the characters to know who to trust, just as in the non-fictional world. Now that some have bugs in their brains and they, themselves, experience the bugs in their brains as vaguely pleasant, nobody can really know anybody. Not even themselves.
On a positive note, one character just reamed his senator out for destroying culture by cutting funding to “This Old House” and asking how he was to find out what happens on “Mr. Grantchester” without PBS. He’s ”not going to stand for this abomination”, while, in news that matters, people’s heads are literally exploding. If that scene doesn’t reflect modern discourse on every single level, I don’t know what does! Oh, actually, one senator’s new coalition of “One-Wayers” — people who think there’s one right way to do things and it’s their way —is also pretty perfect! It’s nice to skip reading the “news” since this series has captured the essence in a well-filmed narrative that’s more pleasant to follow. Watch Streaming Videos: http://www.cbs.com/shows/braindead/video/
