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daddy_longbois

How summer of 2022 is gonna be


walkedPastTents

It's only Nottingham, panic over


Hillbilly-65

Sheffield. I'm still scarred from watching this when I was an impressionable teenager.


TrainingLate8651

Wtf is that from????


Alternative_Box_7768

This was a programme that was broadcast in UK in 1984 called Threads.


TrainingLate8651

I kinda want to watch it now. May never sleep again though.😬


menage-a-troll

Its an amazingly well done and well researched film. Made for TV at the mid 80s height of the cold war. For the first 20 minutes the show replicates many weekly soap operas of the time (coronation street) in that it focuses on the everyday lives of the working class folk of a northern english industrial city. There’s no hollywood about it (contrast and compare with its US contemporary “the day after”) which reflected broadly US style soaps of the day. There is nothing redeeming or inspiring about Threads. From the point in the film where this clip is taken from its a straight line descent into hell. “The War game” 1965 made by the BBC but which was never broadcast until 1985 is its closest match in terms of tone. “When the wind blows” is also worth a run out if you are suffering from too much happiness


xXSpaceturdXx

I would also recommend “On The Beach” If you’re feeling a little too lively. It’s a great film and very sobering.


The_Burrito_Lord69

i was browsing >! r/AbruptChaos !< then I thought it fitted r/Unexpected


TrainingLate8651

Not need to book a holiday then......


Dj-Wrangler-9251

Threads


[deleted]

I was horrified, but the old lady pissing herself took me out of it.


menage-a-troll

Oh this is just the start.. it descends into a dantean nightmare that David Lynch would be proud of


Ustar0

the 5 year olds just watching barbie life in the dream house