GOOOOOOOOOD MORNING MORGENDOOOORKS
It’s time to pay bizarre tribute to the Vietnam War films that defined an era, as this week we cover “The Daria Hunter”! Lawndale High sends its students out on a paintball field trip, and it only takes one short afternoon for war to make everybody a monster. It’s a weird episode (get used to hearing that) for a number of reasons, but we’ll do what we can to make sense of it.
Also, we take a deeeep dive into Hollywood’s efforts to grapple with depicting the Vietnam War, how Vietnam impacted decades of American media, and what, if anything, it could have to do with the intended audience for a got-dang episode of Daria.
Links:
History Today | The American Film Industry & Vietnam, by Michael Paris
Outpost Daria Reborn
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