Suspension of Disbelief
Produced just a few years before my time, I had never but heard of the 70s super-heroine TV series The Secrets of Isis until last summer.
After working its way up my Netflix queue the past ten months, the first disc of the program has arrived at last. Wonder Woman and Charlie’s Angels were my very first favorite programs, but neither Diana Prince nor Sabrina Duncan wore such nerd-de-licious eyewear or hung around hunks with such foxy facial hair. So it’s quite possible Isis might turn out to be my TV show soulmate.
Having peeked at the adorkable opening credits sequence on YouTube, I realized how glad I am for having come of age when one’s own imagination was still required to buy into the fiction of our filmed fantasies.
All the spot-on CGI effects we’re spoon-fed today seems to make make-believing a lot less human.
May 26th, 2009 at 7:42 am
i remeber this, barely.. no one else seemed to remember it.. thought i had made it up…
May 26th, 2009 at 8:38 am
I finally watched the first 3 episodes last night. The stories were so simple and the effects so no-budget, but it was comforting and addictive somehow. The look at 1975 Los Angeles, its strip-malls and cars and junkyards was the best part.
September 19th, 2010 at 9:54 am
The entire series is up on Hulu right now, and I’m watching it. I love the naive earnestness and Saturday-morning goodness! So awesome!