Anyone watching Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States…..

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3. Wouldn't miss it

I look forward to every new installment in the series. Truthfully, I haven't encountered much in the way of 'new' information, but I've gone out of my way to read 'untold' history anyway. It's still thrilling to consider all the viewers for whom this series is absolutely revelatory.

I was especially gratified by last week's episode, covering post-Watergate through Ronnie Raygun's years. Even Jimmy Carter's administration didn't emerge unscathed, but that's alright, as long as the truth gets told and it's not rooted in RWNJ BS. Good that Reagan was not given credit for bringing down the Soviet Union, but I would have preferred that what I consider the root of their downfall, a decade-long flatness in petroleum prices, get mentioned.

Next week will cover the Clinton years, so I expect Oliver Stone to get thrown under the bus on DU. Regardless, they'll be hard-pressed to come up with factual disputation with what Stone presents.

On a side note, at first I was disappointed in Stone's flat, unemotional narrative style, but by the end of the first episode, I came to realize that history doesn't need histrionic embellishment, which is in the RWNJ style.