12-25-2022, 11:22 PM
A documentary about the underlying communism of Gilligan’s Island.
At nearly an hour and a half, this story could’ve been told in half that time. It wastes too much on archive footage, attempting to set off the comedy of the times - atomic bomb fears & the Cold War, plus the attacks on Hollywood. Only creator Sherwood Schwartz, the professor and Mary Anne are interviewed and it’s not clear that those interviews were even done for this doc. They feel like excerpts from somewhere else. There are some scholars interviewed but no one of note. And of course, random clips from the show. Ultimately I wasn’t convinced of their argument.
Not D00M recommended.
At nearly an hour and a half, this story could’ve been told in half that time. It wastes too much on archive footage, attempting to set off the comedy of the times - atomic bomb fears & the Cold War, plus the attacks on Hollywood. Only creator Sherwood Schwartz, the professor and Mary Anne are interviewed and it’s not clear that those interviews were even done for this doc. They feel like excerpts from somewhere else. There are some scholars interviewed but no one of note. And of course, random clips from the show. Ultimately I wasn’t convinced of their argument.
Not D00M recommended.
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