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Nat Geo is airing a 6 part series titled, "The 80's: The Decade That Made Us". Watched the first 2 ep's tonight. Really interesting and very well done. Narrated by 80's poster child Rob Lowe it delves deep into the events and individuals who's contributions/stories defined the decade and set in motion the course of events for the things that would follow.
Tons of interesting trivia tidbits throughout each episode. For instance, the Rubik's Cube has 46 billion, billion possible combinations but only one correct answer. If you tried to arrange the cube in all of the possible configurations starting at the moment the universe was created and changed configurations once per second, you still would be centuries away from accomplishing it!

Good show!

JRNYMAN wrote:Nat Geo is airing a 6 part series titled, "The 80's: The Decade That Made Us". Watched the first 2 ep's tonight. Really interesting and very well done. Narrated by 80's poster child Rob Lowe it delves deep into the events and individuals who's contributions/stories defined the decade and set in motion the course of events for the things that would follow.
Tons of interesting trivia tidbits throughout each episode. For instance, the Rubik's Cube has 46 billion, billion possible combinations but only one correct answer. If you tried to arrange the cube in all of the possible configurations starting at the moment the universe was created and changed configurations once per second, you still would be centuries away from accomplishing it!

Good show!

I have them on dvr and have watched a couple of episodes. It's really cool to remember what it was like back then. Best decade ever.

I have so little time for TV now, but late at night after work this was a perfect wind-down show. Lot's of cool things to remember.

Would be cool if they did this in seasons, devoting maybe 15 episodes to each decade. Too much stuff they had to skip over.

G.I.Jim wrote:

JRNYMAN wrote:Nat Geo is airing a 6 part series titled, "The 80's: The Decade That Made Us". Watched the first 2 ep's tonight. Really interesting and very well done. Narrated by 80's poster child Rob Lowe it delves deep into the events and individuals who's contributions/stories defined the decade and set in motion the course of events for the things that would follow.
Tons of interesting trivia tidbits throughout each episode. For instance, the Rubik's Cube has 46 billion, billion possible combinations but only one correct answer. If you tried to arrange the cube in all of the possible configurations starting at the moment the universe was created and changed configurations once per second, you still would be centuries away from accomplishing it!

Good show!

I have them on dvr and have watched a couple of episodes. It's really cool to remember what it was like back then. Best decade ever.

Yeah, ya know it really was - at least for our generation. Of course we were so young and so wide-eyed back then. We had our whole life ahead of us so we didn't pay as much attention to the details of the things this show is covering. It's nice in a sense to get some of the holes filled in - so to speak. Like the whole Apple computer thing. I had no idea there was soooo much drama with Jobs and that he was an acid-popping hippie who basically despised, and I mean DESPISED corporate America. Hell, I knew him as one of the 2 Steve's that sponsored the US Festival in '83!

Memorex wrote:I have so little time for TV now, but late at night after work this was a perfect wind-down show. Lot's of cool things to remember.

Would be cool if they did this in seasons, devoting maybe 15 episodes to each decade. Too much stuff they had to skip over.

VH1's "I Love the 80's" franchise was fairly cool to some extent and it served its purpose but this show approaches it from a much more respectful and thoughtful perspective acknowledging the actual importance and relevance that decade had on so many things in world history. From pop culture to world peace to a nearly bankrupt country to the excess of excesses that seemed to be applicable to just about everything back then. Coke, Me, Me, Me, Sex, etc.