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Date:
9/10/2016 11:47:26 AM
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Speaking of original content TV
I watched the first episode of Quarry last night on Cinemax. It had a few good things going for it, so I'm cautiously optimistic.
I was surprised by how well they grasped the 1972-73 era. They didn't really nail it, but they were fairly close. They got the technology and look/feel of things but the Vietnam business was much more complicated in real life, even with the village-massacre issue thrown in.
Where they really succeeded was the music. The early 70s era was one big ambient soundtrack. Radios were everywhere, and you heard the songs they were playing on the show constantly. However, in spite of how successful one of his singles was in '68-'69, Otis Redding was still almost unheard of among white people in 1972, so it's very doubtful someone as redneckish as Mac would have a Redding album or that his wife's lover would borrow it. Actually, it would be verging on impossibility. Maybe Credence or the Rascals, or Three Dog Night or someone, but not Redding, Wilson Picket, or anyone from that school.
Also, people with relatively nice houses and swimming pools didn't look like Mac and his wife (i.e., longhair shirtless ex-convicty and hyper-slutty). They tended to live in trailer parks and spawn big litters of kids with names like Lyla and Herbert.
Well, all that aside, the show started off pretty well. It dragged here and there, which does not bode well for future episodes where dragging and "art" will have more license.
Early rating: could be worse; second episode should be watched.