Is it true that one of American television's heralded nostalgic guilty pleasures from the turbulent 1960's in the classic sitcom Gilligan's Island was actually a celebration of sorts for Communist ideology at the height of the Cold War? Is it a fact that this innocuous beloved CBS slapstick comedy about seven marooned individuals from different walks of life that was once heavily condemned by television critics and network executives as a shipwrecked bomb is actually a satirical slap in the face to the thumbnail of democracy? Is the underlying message about the boob tube's most treasured band of seven stranded castaways an undercover affront to the liberties of American national sensibilities? Have generations of TV viewers underestimated and undermined the political in-depth message about that extremely popular...
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- 11/16/2018
- Screen Anarchy
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