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anyone watched this? made by Tom Hanks

“Electric City” is the kind of postapocalyptic story in which dystopian sci-fi is a vehicle for nostalgia. (A similar sort of current runs through Tom Hanks blockbusters as disparate as “Forrest Gump” and “Toy Story.”) The world has suffered an as-yet-unspecified disaster — a reference to “the lost cities near the swollen lakes” suggests a global-warming tie-in, which is buttressed by the central place that the generation of electricity holds in the story.

After the standard interregnum of rape and pillage, seen in flashbacks, a fragile society has emerged: agrarian and frontierlike (board sidewalks), but with a lot of modern design; seemingly at an early-20th-century level of technology, but with Oregon-style coffee huts and, judging by the characters’ wardrobes, a nearby Barneys Co-op. The lovingly rendered props include blimps, old-time radio microphones and pneumatic tubes.

here is the first episode

http://electriccity......ences.html