Ep. 18: Io Noon — “Outland” (1981)

Shpaysh: The final frontier. This is the story of the Jupiter moon colony Io, the lawless mining colony it supports, and the whiny American child somehow born to two British parents. It’s also a space-set version of the 1952 western “High Noon,” brought to us by this week’s guest and amateur astronomer Greg Redfern.

While some of the effects are obviously dated 40 years later, many of the social themes of exploitative capitalism reverberate just as loudly in 2021.

So come for space studmuffin Sean Connery and stay for a logline comparison you’ll never see coming.

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