You're Going Back to the 70s With Hulu's "Candy"

S01E01 takes us back to Wylie, Texas, June 13, 1980...the last day of Betty Gore's life, and a look into the life of Candy Montgomery. The series got off to a great start in the first few scenes: houses with cathedral ceilings and moss rock fireplaces, gold-colored slimline phones with authentic ringer bells, a 1970's D&M Kenmore dishwasher, a gold early 80's Maytag laundry pair, heavily patterned wallpaper, a double oven cookstove, some harvest gold refrigerators along with period-appropriate cars, clothes and fashion accessories. The late 20th century feel is quite correct. Some of the actors - mostly the men - appear to be wearing wigs to help with the image, but it isn't all that obvious. I did not even cringe much when a character loads up the Maytag, we hear water running into it, then she pushes her finger against a part of the control panel where a button would not be, and the soundtrack immediately switches to an agitating noise which sounds for all the world like a belt-driven Whirlpool-built product.

But then, some anachronisms begin showing up: a late 80s to early 90s decorator white Whirlpool dishwasher in the church kitchen, an early 90s Kenmore clothes washer, and the kitchen of one of the houses which started out so well with an avocado side-by-side, a dial-operated Radarange, and a weird dishwasher with the appropriate two black panels set in silver metal frames but with dish towels covering up the control panel (?!), falls apart when a camera angle catches a 2000s or newer concealed-control KitchenAid or Maytag dishwasher, also with a dish towel hanging on its door handle and looking very out of place. And, the hardware on the kitchen cabinetry is puzzling: looks way too contemporary for the 70s house it's supposed to be in. I guess it's possible that such cabinetry existed in the late 20 century, but I saw a wide variety of houses in the 70s, and I can't recall that style even in ultra-modern houses I'd seen. The illusion was not totally blown for me, but I had a hard time keeping it set in mind.

The link included takes you to one of the trailers. There is not much to see for us appliance enthusiasts, but what is looking more and more like a modern DW faked out to look like what one would expect in a late 1900s kitchen shows up.

Has anybuddy (sic) else seen the show yet? What were your impressions?

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Post# 1148382 5/10/2022 at 00:00 (714 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country)
Checkrate/Likes 1 S01E01 takes us back to Wylie, Texas, June 13, 1980...the last day of Betty Gore's life, and a look into the life of Candy Montgomery. The series got off to a great start in the first few scenes: houses with cathedral ceilings and moss rock fireplaces, gold-colored slimline phones with authentic ringer bells, a 1970's D&M Kenmore dishwasher, a gold early 80's Maytag laundry pair, heavily patterned wallpaper, a double oven cookstove, some harvest gold refrigerators along with period-appropriate cars, clothes and fashion accessories. The late 20th century feel is quite correct. Some of the actors - mostly the men - appear to be wearing wigs to help with the image, but it isn't all that obvious. I did not even cringe much when a character loads up the Maytag, we hear water running into it, then she pushes her finger against a part of the control panel where a button would not be, and the soundtrack immediately switches to an agitating noise which sounds for all the world like a belt-driven Whirlpool-built product. But then, some anachronisms begin showing up: a late 80s to early 90s decorator white Whirlpool dishwasher in the church kitchen, an early 90s Kenmore clothes washer, and the kitchen of one of the houses which started out so well with an avocado side-by-side, a dial-operated Radarange, and a weird dishwasher with the appropriate two black panels set in silver metal frames but with dish towels covering up the control panel (?!), falls apart when a camera angle catches a 2000s or newer concealed-control KitchenAid or Maytag dishwasher, also with a dish towel hanging on its door handle and looking very out of place. And, the hardware on the kitchen cabinetry is puzzling: looks way too contemporary for the 70s house it's supposed to be in. I guess it's possible that such cabinetry existed in the late 20 century, but I saw a wide variety of houses in the 70s, and I can't recall that style even in ultra-modern houses I'd seen. The illusion was not totally blown for me, but I had a hard time keeping it set in mind. The link included takes you to one of the trailers. There is not much to see for us appliance enthusiasts, but what is looking more and more like a modern DW faked out to look like what one would expect in a late 1900s kitchen shows up. Has anybuddy (sic) else seen the show yet? What were your impressions? CLICK HERE TO GO TO seedub's LINK