I’m really curious about the Up series and if there were any decisions you analyzed. Did anything surprise you? At 42, did someone change careers or leave a place or do something that dramatically changed course of the next 30 years for them?
I think you and Anna would dig it. You can imagine the (lack of) production quality in the 1960s and 70s, so it starts to really pick up in the more recent episodes. Man, there are so many changes. There's the London cabby who complains about immigration and ironically moves to Spain. There's the physicist who discovers, now divorced, that his whole life's work on fission research was for nothing. There is the guy who grew up in an orphanage himself and then is convinced by his hustler wife to become a foster dad in his 40s. And 12 other stories. It's too much to compress into a single comment and I think entire PhD dissertations have been written about the series. Let me know if you watch it.
I’m really curious about the Up series and if there were any decisions you analyzed. Did anything surprise you? At 42, did someone change careers or leave a place or do something that dramatically changed course of the next 30 years for them?
I think you and Anna would dig it. You can imagine the (lack of) production quality in the 1960s and 70s, so it starts to really pick up in the more recent episodes. Man, there are so many changes. There's the London cabby who complains about immigration and ironically moves to Spain. There's the physicist who discovers, now divorced, that his whole life's work on fission research was for nothing. There is the guy who grew up in an orphanage himself and then is convinced by his hustler wife to become a foster dad in his 40s. And 12 other stories. It's too much to compress into a single comment and I think entire PhD dissertations have been written about the series. Let me know if you watch it.