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Originally Posted by Carmine
The show was called "American Dreams", and it was awful... from both a historical standpoint (Predicta studio monitors!?) and in terms of storyline.
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More like "Predict-oid"! That was a strange looking beast; something the prop department must have, on bad advice, cobbled together for "effect."
I liked that show. It originally caught my attention because of the TVs (of course!) I mean, how many show's was I ever likely to see featuring a TV repair shop a lot like the one I worked in as a kid after school?
But I liked the production too. I'm not usually a fan of trendy effects, but if you're gonna do 'em, do 'em well, and they did. I thought the way they matched the live (re-created) action on the stage to the original (recorded) footage on the monitors was a pretty neat effect and very nicely done. And while the editing style may have been a little "over the top" too, the editing was some of the best I've seen. My brother in law grew up in that neighborhood at that point in time and said that the overall look-and-feel of the show was dead-on. I really enjoyed it (despite that scarey Predictoid!) and I wish they had continued it.
--Dave