So, Entertainment Weekly has been making top 100 lists of "New Classics", books, movies, TV shows made since 1983. I tend not to devote much headspace to this sort of thing since, while they're fun to take a look at when the pop up, lists like this are always complete and utter bullshit. That said, there was one thing on this list that puzzled me a bit. Sitting right in the middle at #50 was Baywatch.
Baywatch? Really? This was the 100 best right? Baywatch had its (surgically enhanced) charms, I suppose, but great television it was not.
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I don't know about this country, but it was huge--HUGE--in Russia. Lots of Russians "knew" about the US through bouncing Baywatch. So in terms of cross-cultural impact...
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