Despite being its popularity and being nominated for an Emmy, “Downtown” was canceled after its first season
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Due to music rights issues there has never been an official home media release for “MTV Downtown” and bootleg releases from Asia and even from the main production team are scarce (personally, I have one that was distributed by the director for a small window of time in the late 00s) but you can watch every episode for free on YouTube here (https://tinyurl.com/mr27wp5z)
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The show was animated with a mix of traditional 2D animation, computer animation and some use of rotoscoping. It’s based on interviews of young New Yorkers in the mid90s. You can watch some of those interviews here ( https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZqzTfaoQcVg3x9u8pB4vAZo0_q7kb8sf&si=fTRziKamfwPeNQEE)
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And now y’all can click over to our Feature Presentation: “Nowhere” (1997) (link here: https://ok.ru/video/9299103320726) directed by gay Japanese-American filmmaker Gregg Araki (December 17, 1959-). This film is the final entry of his “Teenage Apocalypse Film Trilogy”
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For the curious: Yes, actor Nathan Benton who plays Montgomery, has complete Heterochromia which means that his eyes are different colors
#LaEsoterica #Nowhere1997 #NathanBexton

If the dude playing Ducky looks familiar that’s probably b/c he’s Scott Caan, the nepobaby son of James Caan. He went on to be other 90s teen films like “Varsity Blues”, “Bongwater”, Gone in 60 Seconds”,etc.
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Jaason Simmons was an actual TV star since he was apparently on the show “Baywatch” at the time “Nowhere” was filmed
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