![]() ![]() “‘Is my nail polish Y2K-compliant? Is the world gonna end? What about the embedded chips?’ Blah, blah, blah. In one subplot, our hero’s teenage daughter sneaks out of the house to attend a New Year’s bash. At the time, critics and scientists alike denounced the film’s panic-mongering, but the worries of stoked anxieties also proved that the executive producers, who were “astonished nobody else pitched” the idea, had tapped into a real sociological undercurrent. ![]() As the clock hits the rolling series of midnights across Earth’s time zones, billions of dollars vanish in a blink, planes fall out of the sky, New York plunges into a mass blackout, and hospitals start turning away patients. As its grabbier DVD-release title Countdown to Chaos suggests, the program foretold the imminent arrival of the new millennium as a global meltdown in the grand tradition of Irwin Allen. N November 21, 1999, NBC’s airwaves were graced by the broadcast of a TV movie billed as Y2K. ![]()
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