Electric Dreams

[Drunk Monk]

Do you guys like Dick? I suspect you do like Dick. You guys strike me as Dick likers. I confess that I was only exposed to Dick after Bladerunner. I only read that Electric Sheep novel. I remember liking it but that was the fashionable thing to do back in 82, read the book some movie was based on and then say how the source was better just to look smarter. Anyway ED (electric dreams, not El dingo) is based on short Dick stories. You guys like short Dick stories, right? It’s a lot like Black Mirror, only with more A list stars and a bladerunner set sensibility. It’s amazon prime. I’m about halfway through season 1 and it’s been amusing so far. Hard not to compare with BM - without the opening credits, I might be hard pressed to tell the difference. I get a bit distracted by some of the actors involved, as there’s many more recognizable faces. ED seems a little better written, but BM feels better actualized, if that makes any sense. BM might be only a few steps away in our future, while ED is hopefully more distant, like bladerunner. I guess I gotta confess - I like Dick.