Wonderfully offbeat film!
One of the best films i have seen
This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.
View MoreStory: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.
I have yet to meet one other person who remembers this show, so it is no wonder that it has lapsed into obscurity. The fact that it's been more than 20 years since it was last broadcast certainly hasn't helped it's legacy, which is a shame, because Insight is arguably one of the very best TV series in the history of the medium. A religious-themed drama anthology series of morality plays that featured some of the most talented actors, writers and directors of the era, it had less to do with promoting religious doctrine than it did with exploring the human condition and topical issues of the period. I never watched an episode of Insight without coming away with food for thought concerning whatever moral or ethical issue that was explored in the episode, and I've never seen a bad one (although the very best ones seem to have been made during the late 60s to mid 70s). As for the show itself, you never knew what you were going to get when you tuned in to an episode of Insight. Not unlike The Twilight Zone (the show to which it is most often compared), the series format included every possible genre from science fiction and fantasy to melodrama to comedy, and the show had the amazing ability to not only amuse, unsettle or shock the viewer, it sometimes managed to do all of those things within a single episode. Shot on videotape on a visibly low budget and broadcast without commercials, and filmed on sparsely decorated sets where actors occasionally flubbed their lines, the show nevertheless managed to overcome it's budgetary constraints to deliver a consistently high quality series of episodes aided not only by the aforementioned top-level talent but an effective use of surreal images and unsettling musical scores. For reasons that are unclear to me, we may never see this series broadcast again (or released on DVD). However, a number of episodes have somehow made their way onto YouTube. We can only hope that this series will once again be re-released on a larger scale. The show was too amazing to be allowed to fade into obscurity.
View MoreYou can't tell me nothing about insight , this was my show ! Amazon , Netflix ,Google or somebody better start digging this old show up and make some money . Insight was a faith base show that explored a variety of real life issues in a half an hour time period. The episode "All Out" is a favorite of mine because it's about ...what would you do for money even if your life was on the line .
View MoreSome "Insight" episodes are available on VHS from Paulist Press (http://www.paulistpress.com). They are grouped together in sets of 3; I have used "Christ Incognito: Classic insight Dramas: Jesus B.C., The Day Everything Went Wrong, The Man Who Mugged God" in my Sunday School class. "Wrestling with God: Classic Insight Comedies: Packy, The Walls Came Tumblin' Down, This side of Eden" worked well, too; I remembered "Packy" about an actor's agent getting into heaven though I'd seen it once over 20 years ago.They are working on DVDs but say that it is "a slow process".
View MoreInsight was a show that I used to see _early_ Sunday mornings after "Davey & Goliath". The best way to describe this show is a sort of religious "Twilight Zone". In fact, if I remember correctly, there was one episode that was a blatant rip-off of the "Zone" episode about the six dolls. The twist in the plot would be some sort of morality play. It was an interesting show that was pretty subtle in its message.
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