Kris Kristofferson has died

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@Baker

Nobody but me seems to remember him in Amerikkka.

Pretty crappy miniseries, it wasn’t really his fault.

I was going to say I started a thread about it a “little while ago”, but it was actually in 2016!

Amerika (1987 miniseries)

I just finished watching the miniseries “Amerika” (about a Soviet-dominated U.S.) which premiered in 1987. I remember the hype at the time (and the spoof “Amerida” on SNL where Canada took over the U.S.), but I never saw it. It wasn’t very good. The exact mechanism how the Soviets took over America was deliberately left vague (Wikipedia says the novelisation explains that America was crippled by a huge EMP), but it didn’t seem very plausible. There was a lot of choppy jumping between the var…