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Can you guys let us know how much we will be covering show to show? For example, show one covered part one of quiet American and show two covered parts 2-4. Would be great to get a heads up beforehand on how deep we should go each show.

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I'll just get in a quickie for now...but before anyone starts on how visionary and prescient Orwell was, it is known that he had regular reports from his political network telling him of on-the-ground occurrences in the Eastern European Communist countries of that era.

He took those reports and spun a story out of them. An excellent story. But he did not have the crystal ball that so many readers assume. He was noting the patterns of totalitarianism, which repeat whenever/wherever it appears. In Orwell's day, or in ours.

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