

There was something about him that screamed autoerotic asphyxiation and wide ties. I didn’t catch the series when it first ran and only knew The Max Headroom Show, where the talking head veejayed music videos. Really not so distant, twenty minutes or so, and by setting its sights so short the series nailed the future closer than many more lauded attempts at artistic precognition. Shot in the ’80s, it was set in the not-so-distant future. Max Headroom, wasn’t just the highest point Wayfarers reached in cyberpunk culture, it was a prescient look into the immediate gratification of the internet age.
