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Wild Palms
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Wild Palms is a six hour science fiction TV mini-series from 1993, produced by Oliver Stone and written by Bruce Wagner (who also wrote the comic book the series was based on). It starred James Belushi, Dana Delany, Bebe Neuwirth, Angie Dickinson, Kim Cattrall, Ernie Hudson, Ben Savage and Robert Loggia.Set in 2007, Harry Wyckoff (Belushi) has got it all: A successful career as a patent attorney, a beautiful wife, a teenage son starting a TV career, and a little daughter who is still too shy to speak. But at night, he is haunted by nightmares of palm trees and rhinoceroses. Accepting a call for help from his former girlfriend to find her kidnapped son, Harry is pulled into a web of intrigue surrounding the charismatic Senator Kreutzer, TV Channel 3, a strange religion called Synthiotics and old rival secret societies called The Friends and The Fathers.Wild Palms demonstrated an astoundingly sensible projection of future trends, including the rise of retro music as well as believable fashion. Notably, one episode was directed by Kathryn Bigelow. | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family | |
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Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Kreutzers. Tony is secretly Harry's father. Bring on the Squick, as his sister Josie is Grace's mother. And also fathered Coty on Paige, then switched him for Harry's son - the Maps to the Stars kid. | |
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Stealth Pun | |
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Stealth Pun: "Everything Must Go", as noted in-universe. | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain | |
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Cyberpunk with a Chance of Rain: Averted with palms and lots of sunshine. Includes some elements of Post-Cyberpunk. | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real | |
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Your Mind Makes It Real: With the assistance of Mimezine. | |
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Offing the Offspring | |
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Offing the Offspring: Josie kills Grace, her daughter. | |
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We Are Everywhere | |
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We Are Everywhere: Everyone Harry knows seems to turn out to be either a Friend or a Father. | |
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Japan Takes Over the World | |
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Japan Takes Over the World: Hinted at. For example, when Josie is attacked, she starts screaming Japanese threats when retreating. | |
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All Psychology Is Freudian | |
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All Psychology Is Freudian: Harry's therapy sessions. Notably, the therapist is a Father, so it's doubtful that he had any interest in Harry's mental health. | |
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Soaperizing | |
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Soaperizing: The series was essentially a cyberpunk soap opera. | |
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Cryptic Conversation | |
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Cryptic Conversation: Most conversations in this series are cryptic. | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation | |
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Pragmatic Adaptation: The series is fairly trippy in and of itself, but the comic it was adapted from is Philip K. Dick-level bizarre, and unfilmable. Wagner did the best he could, but any fans should definitely read both. | |
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Driven to Suicide | |
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Driven to Suicide: Grace Wyckoff, though she survives the attempt... only to be killed off by her mother. Tully also kills himself after killing Josie. | |
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Hard Light | |
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Hard Light: Mimecom TV + the Mimezine drug. | |
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TheMasquerade | |
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The Masquerade: The Fathers' scheme; their war with the Friends. | |
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Arc Words | |
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Arc Words: "Go." It's the name of the drug, several episode titles, and Kreutzer's farewell, where he sings "Hello, I Must Be Going." | |
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Brother–Sister Incest | |
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Brother–Sister Incest: Heavily implied between Tully and his sister. Even more heavily implied between Tony and Josie Kreutzer. Especially as he arranged for his son to marry Josie's daughter. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Senator Tony Kreutzer just loves to Chew the Scenery. To be expected from a character played by Robert Loggia. | |
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Pop-Star Composer | |
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Pop-Star Composer: The score was composed by Ryuichi Sakamoto. | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized | |
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The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized: The Friends may be the "good guys," but they can be damned manipulative and cold at times. | |
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Eye Scream | |
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Eye Scream: When Josie gouges out Tully's eyes with her thumbs. | |
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As Himself | |
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As Himself: Oliver Stone in a TV interview about JFK (where he shows himself as vindicated with his theory in the future). William Gibson at a party. | |
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No New Fashions in the Future | |
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No New Fashions in the Future: Subverted. Edwardian suits and groovy sixties dresses are both back in style. There's also a sixties music revival going on, including several lounge-style covers of famous pop songs. | |
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HollywoodCyborg | |
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Hollywood Cyborg: Tully uses virtual reality glasses to compensate for his blindness after Josie gouges out his eyes. | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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"Beat me up, Scotty!" | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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Show Within a Show: The Church Windows sitcom Coty is playing in, which oscillates between Stylistic Suck and the Uncanny Valley. | |
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Fan Disservice | |
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Fan Disservice: During a nightmare, Harry reaches over to touch his wife in bed — and she turns into Robert Loggia, snorting like a warthog. May well be the most unsettling moment in the entire series. | |
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Church of Happyology | |
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Church of Happyology: Synthiotics is a thinly veiled expy of Scientology. Its founder is said to be a former science fiction writer, and its Elite Mooks dress as sailors like members of the Sea Org. Notably, Wild Palms was released quite a few years before Scientology became widely mocked and displays considerably more subtle knowledge of said religion than most modern digs at it. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Animal Crackers included a song titled "Hello, I Must Be Going". It was the title of the final episode of the miniseries, and the song itself was sung by villain Senator Kreutzer (Robert Loggia) as he died. T.S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men" and Walt Whitman's "O Captain, My Captain" serve as the anthems of the Fathers and the Friends. "Beat me up, Scotty!" | |
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Chemical Messiah | |
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Chemical Messiah: The drug Mimezine (discovered by Harry's father, Dexter, by experimenting on fugu toxin), which permitted one to hallucinate interactions with holograms, had religious overtones (overdoses resulted in "image sickness", beginning with hallucinations of churches, progressing into losing oneself in memories, and ultimately death), considering that the Scientology-like antagonist cult (Synthiotics/The New Realism) in the miniseries controlled the pharmaceutical labs where it was manufactured as well as the media outlets which benefited from its use by consumers. Senator Kreutzer, the Big Bad, certainly thought that opening the doors of perception using Mimezine was one of the first steps to enlightenment in the New Realist/Synthiotics paradigm. | |
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Animal Motifs | |
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Animal Motifs: A rhinoceros is frequently featured in dream sequences and virtual reality. | |
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G.I.R.L. | |
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G.I.R.L.: Terra, Chickie's cyberspace love-interest is actually Ushio Kawabatake, a Japanese member of the Friends. | |
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20 Minutes into the Future | |
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20 Minutes into the Future: Produced in 1993, set in 2007. | |
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Brain Uploading | |
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Brain Uploading: Senator Kreutzer's ultimate goal. | |
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Society-on-Edge Episode | |
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Society-on-Edge Episode: The last episode ups the tension this way by showing society breaking apart at the seams as a result of the power struggle between the crypto-fascist Fathers and the more libertarian and humanistic Friends, secret societies that have been warring over America for decades. | |
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