1968

Reviewed by:
Jordan Burchette

Senseless war? Check! Divided electorate? Check! Genius and shitty music? Chiggity-check! If it weren't for its military draft and disease-free promiscuity, you could just as easily have called this thing 2007. Hosted by Tom Brokaw, this retrospective provides a storm window into why the world is so craphole now, as well as why things aren't as turbulent the second time around. You already knew that men circled the moon, the Beatles recorded the White Album and hippies defeated Hitler, but did you know it all happened in the same year?

Assassination's abounded, with Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy going down in order like Biggie and Tupac (everyone got killed back then. It was the prevailing campaign strategy of the time), and ordinary citizens got clubbed like ordinary kittens in the first signs of mass civil unrest. 1968 doesn't do a lot to extrapolate the similarities between now and then into a vision for the future, but as long as that future doesn't include a remake of Planet of the Apes we're gonna make it just fine.

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