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Dynasty
1981 · TV series · 46 min episodes · 9 seasons
Created by Esther Shapiro, Richard Alan Shapiro
The saga of a wealthy Denver family in the oil business: Blake Carrington, the patriarch; Krystle, his former secretary and wife; his children: Adam, lost in childhood after a kidnapping; Fallon, pampered and spoiled; Steven, openly gay; and Amanda, hidden from him by his ex-wife, the conniving Alexis. Most of the show features the conflict between 2 large corporations, Blake's Denver Carrington and Alexis' ColbyCo.
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Just for fun, watch a movie from the 30s, 40s, 50s, etc., and take a look at the interiors of houses.
We've got a lot better today, and a lot more of it.
Even watch an episode of Dynasty (about rich people). Look at the crappy TV in the corner. I remember taking my last CRT TV to the recycler. I was sure glad to be rid of it.
I have several players, they all behave differently wrt which DVDs make them crash. You're right that the bluray players tend to be more robust, but they still randomly crash.
I just bought the complete Dynasty series, about 200 episodes (so sue me over my bad taste), and so far about 5 of the episodes won't play all the way through.
From Earthsearch[1]:
> The Japanese might make the best cars, the Germans the best beers, the French the best perfumes, the Italians the best pizza, but Americans make the best dreams.
> American TV, film, and music dominate the world's mass markets. While American-made computers, cars, steel and tools struggle against foreign competition, Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, and Mickey Mouse are cleaning up. American pop culture is just about the biggest export the U.S. produces. For better or worse, it's literally everywhere. Every backroads world traveler has a favorite story about being lost, hungry, and hundreds of miles off the edge of any map when a friendly native suddenly appears to lead him to a hut. Crawling inside, the traveler finds himself staring at a rerun of Dynasty on the generator-powered TV and a poster of Michael Jordan on the wall.
> It's scary.
The passage is dated, incorrect (even when it was written), and oddly chauvinistic to our ears. But it contains a nugget of truth: practically all of humanity has consumed at least some American media.
1. http://www.amazon.com/Earthsearch-John-Cassidy/dp/1878257749 by John Cassidy, author of Explorabook.
Just to say that the TV series mentioned in the article, Dynasty[1], was really popular then. My parents watched it as well.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynasty_%28TV_series%29