The Day After
So this is what “the most watched TV movie in US history” looks like – The Day After, a disaster-movie-style treatment of nuclear apocalypse from 1983. “Most watched” is one of those tags up for debate, obviously – watched on the day of transmission versus watched again and again, for example. Or watched in the olden time of big broadcasters and mass viewing versus the Netflix era, where everything is a TV movie one way or another. Less up for debate is how effective Nicholas Meyer’s film still is. And it’s become increasingly relevant all over again as Russia pushes its armies into eastern Europe, while in America a debate rages over whether the … Read more