Watching ye olde post apocalyptic series Survivors (1975) and it is delightfully brutal. Imagine 99.99% of people dying from a virus and the remainers have the moral values of the 1970s.
There's a lot of men in thick woollen jumpers and tight jeans killing pigs to assert dominance in their newly formed hippy communes.
The cliffhanger for this two part episode is they walk into town and get attacked by rats.
It's good but I can get that for free in Melbourne.
There's something dynamic about Survivors for such an old show (1975). It has unpredictable writing but even accounting for that it's got some other x-factor.
Looked into it and it's one of the first dramas ever to switch from film to video tape on location, allowing them to do a lot more outdoor work and also rehearsing on location.
So they got visual degradation from the early-gen video but they got better acting and way more verisimilitude(?)... an interesting trade off
They say "the past is a foreign country" and I think this is shown to great effect in this unsettling scene from 1975's Survivors.
PS Some times it's pretty obvious who's going to die in each episode 😅
This episode, "A Little Learning", is a new low for Survivors. It's so bad.
1. Classic "All the adults are dead and the kids have made their own society" fail.
2. Then they all get blown up by land mines?
3. But they're completely fine somehow?!
4. And then an elephant shows up for no reason?!? The end.
Luke Miller