https://files.catbox.moe/qdu1tj.mp4
I uploaded this to catbox. Pulled from this telegram channel:
I was listening to Peter Gabriel's song Sledge Hammer today and the image of Max Headroom popped into my brain. I hadn't seen that guy since I was eight years old. It's weird how your brain works and ties things together behind the scenes.
Being the curious person I am, I do a little searching. The first season of Max Headroom aired in March of 1987 and Sledge Hammer released a year earlier. This must be the reason I tied them together. I never really paid much attention to the show nor did I remember anything about it. And to be honest he kind of freaked me out.
The plot summary blew me away:
In the future, an oligarchy of television networks rules the world. Even the government functions primarily as a puppet of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning "off" switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks' power. Television technology has advanced to the point that viewers' physical movements and thoughts can be monitored through their television sets. Almost all non-television technology has been discontinued or destroyed. The only real check on the power of the networks is Edison Carter, a crusading investigative journalist who regularly exposes the unethical practices of his own employer, and the team of allies both inside and outside the system who assist him in getting his reports to air and protecting him from the forces that wish to silence or kill him.
The televisions in the show were replaced by cell phones that were easier to track and control. Now I have to find these two season and binge watch them.
