In 1983, American audiences became enraptured by The Day After . The made-for-TV movie with an all-star cast imagines a scenario that was on everyone’s mind at the time: what would happen if nuclear war really did break out and Soviet-launched bombs started dropping on the heartland?
Turns out people couldn’t get enough of seeing their nightmares play out on the small screen. The Day After became one of the highest-rated TV movies ever at the time. One year later, the BBC aired its own tale of nuclear doom with Threads , which takes a different approach and delivers perhaps even more harrowing results.
Instead of a straight narrative— The Day…
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