Two Netflix series I started last night.
"Tokyo Trial" is about the Japanese equivalent of the Nuremberg trials, where Japanese politicians and military leaders were being tried in 1946 for war crimes. In the opening argument the defense counsel brings up Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Could be interesting, but it was a bit heavy and ponderous for my mood -- legal maneuvering, personality clashes, victor's justice, etc.
I flipped around looking for something else and found "The Eighties," supposedly an exploration of how we became a society obsessed with greed and avarice during the Reagan years. The first two episodes focused on changes in TV, and while true that many changes occurred, the documentary wasn't able to establish any direction for the changes, or tie them to anything else. The series is by CNN, which has lost all credibility with me in the past few years and this series didn't do anything yet to recover it. Lots of old TV clips, randomly assembled. Yeah, I remember Morton Downey Jr. Yeah, I remember "The Wonder Years." So what?
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