Real question; likely only for people who've lived in Germany for a substantial period of time:
How "big" / popular of a cultural phenomenon was Max Headroom, back at the time (1980s–1990s)?
I kinda get the sense that it was a large thing, or at least larger than it was in other non-UK/US countries, based on the fact that there seem to be a lot of German-language books & memorabilia out there, which I don't see in other languages....
But perhaps that just represents the size of the market.
@kupfers Oh, I'm sure more people in the US and UK recognize him from the Coca-Cola ads than anything else.
The TV movie and the sci-fi show are a really trippy, unique thing, even if you don't particularly care about cyberpunk. Production quality is a tad dated, naturally, but it is super ambitious and distinctive.
Like if Taco Bell made a gritty backstory show about the Yo Queiro chihuahua escaping from the drug cartels and a government lab giving it the power of speech to testify at trial.
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