Watched the first ep of the new Night Stalker true crime series on Netflix. I was a kid new to the LA area that summer of '85, and tonally/aesthetically this series gets at something about LA in the 80s that I think most period stuff lacks.
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It wasn't all neon and glamour. There was an ugliness to it. My impression of LA that summer was smog, traffic congestion, and, yes, the fear of the Night Stalker. I'd lie awake at night in fear of him emerging from the darkness.
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Of course this was largely due to the fact that local news wouldn't stop sensationalizing their coverage of him in their drive for ratings. But there's a way in which the flatness and vastness of Los Angeles can be oppressive and scary, too, and this series leverages that.
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This is an idea of what the Los Angeles of 1985 looks like in my memory, as someone who lived there.pic.twitter.com/o13vycwLg3
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Oh yeah, absolutely, Los Angeles can be beautiful, and so peaceful. It's a city of many facets. My experience of it at the time was defined (in my memory at least) by smog and strip malls but even I was aware of its vast, uncategorizable beauty and strangeness.
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