1965 - Public Morals (2015) Discussion

[–] StarryEyes1 9 years ago

I looked up Back Door Man and the Doors released it in 1967, however it was originally recorded in 1958 by Howling Wolf.

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[–] lilmonkeyboy1 9 years ago

I just saw a 1968 Plymouth Satellite Police car. It appears they're just throwing anything in from the '60's.

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[–] Mlsmia 9 years ago

I thought it was an odd choice for the establishing scenes. Good find on the date discrepancy!

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[–] buffyfan145 9 years ago

I did see that in the bts vid TNT posted however Ed's also said he's not going to really ever say what year it takes place in. He doesn't want us as an audience to be focused on that or historical events since he's not going to cover that much like "Mad Men" did. He is a huge "Mad Men" fan so he wanted this to be different. He liked the show to being like a Western and how in most of those you don't know the exact year it takes place just that it's a Western, so his show is just a 60s based show.

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[–] nlpnt 9 years ago

Gonna be hard to avoid Stonewall if its' about vice cops in NYC.

Then again, TV's pulled it off before - this is the medium and timeframe that did an entire decade of shows about a southern sheriff that completely ignored the civil rights era *while it was happening*.

*The only true currency in this world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool.*

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[–] sarah-103 9 years ago

Gonna be hard to avoid Stonewall if its' about vice cops in NYC.

Not necessarily. My knowledge of New York City geography isn't fantastic, however I'm pretty sure Stonewall was in a different precinct, so the lead characters wouldn't be responding to the call. As others have said, the showrunner/creative team isn't interested in telling a story with the big moments of the 1960s. He's more interested in a small scale story focusing on one neighborhood. They've done a great job of caputring the look of mid to late 1960s New York. There's a real difference between what the different generations wear.

"Forget reality, give me a picture"-Remington Steele

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[–] dwarfaxe 9 years ago

Well, they just played House of the Rising Sun at the end of tonight's episode and since that came out in '64, it has to be at least that recent.

I'm still wondering about the red sedan that Muldoon was driving. I remember seeing cars like that when I lived in the Bronx in the 70's. I'd swear that was late 60's up to maybe 1970?

Edit: found it. '65 Impala.

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