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07/21/2001 Archived Entry: "The women, the guns and the flies"

I loved this review of Cleopatra 2525 from the Times:

A potential award-winner from Channel 5 in the fiercely contested category for the worst television programme ever made. It is difficult to know exactly what is going on, but various women who live underground and wear sci-fi swimsuits fire laser guns at large plastic flies that hover Zepplin-like above the surface of the Earth. Sometimes they also fire their guns at robots wrapped in baking foil who have come under the influence of the flies.

They are joined by Cleopatra - don't ask how - who was a 21st century stripper. Cleopatra went in for a straightforward breast implant five centuries earlier, only to come round from the anaesthetic and find herself surrounded by the women, the guns and the flies. "Oh my God," she wails. "This can't be happening. My whole world has been destroyed." We know the feeling.