Better Remembered: Season 2 Episode 3
The Truman Show
On this episode of Better Remembered we watch 1998’s The Truman Show starring Jim Carrey, Ed Harris, and Laura Linney. “An insurance salesman discovers his whole life is actually a reality TV show.”
Released on June 6th, 1998 as America was becoming increasingly interested in reality television, The Truman Show is a look at what might happen if one man’s entire life was a reality television series, and he didn’t know it. Creepy? You bet it is. But Jim Carrey makes it an endearing story, with surprising biblical undertones.
Join us as we rewatch this funny and heartfelt tale of Truman Burbank as he tries to escape his dystopian creator's world in a search for truth.
Also in this episode, snake granules: are they legit or just snake oil in pellet form? We’ll talk about how some legislators in California want to succeed their medical authority to the CDC. We take a brief look at Aldous Huxley’s 1931 novel, Brave New World and look at examples of it in action today. And finally we’ll hop in our time machine and look at pop culture for June 1998.
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