A neighbourhood's daily life under authoritarian rule, told with more warmth than politics
19 April 2027
Before the screening#
Watch the assigned episodes. Bring one everyday detail — food, money, a neighbourhood ritual — that tells you something about the decade the show doesn’t say outright.
In the screening#
We read the neighbourhood’s daily life against the authoritarian, rapidly developing state it sits inside, asking what a nostalgic retelling of a hard decade tends to soften.
Afterwards#
Compare this week’s family life to week 4’s — the same institution, generations and one authoritarian decade apart.
The spec
What you bring to the session. Written so a reader can tell whether it has been met without asking you.
- you have watched the assigned episodes before arriving
- you can name one detail of 1980s daily life the show uses to build its world
- you can name one thing the show's nostalgia plays down or leaves out
Teaching team
- May Rhee — convenor