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Max Headroom . . . It isn't exactly dated; the grunge-tech look is in a sense timeless. On the other hand the wireframe computer graphics are awfully archaic looking and action dwells on them, suggesting that at the time they were damn cool and worth dwelling on.The graphics were already dated at the time, but you've nailed it on how the action dwelt on them - it was just one more piece of the whole self-aware, tongue-in-cheek undercurrent. Most folks either just didn't get it or thought they were being talked down to. Unfortunates the middle group between those two just wasn't very big.
