MCM furniture used on TV shows  

The Ice Storm which takes place in New Canaan Connecticut has the best collection of mid century furniture of any movie or TV plot I've seen.
And yes Dexter. Love Dexter's simple and stylish flat.
Miami Vice always had interesting sets filled with Nagel prints and Memphis Modern.

Nice pair of black Barcelona chairs with matching ottomans anchor Patrick Bateman's "American Psycho" living room, along with the large black framed Robert Longo figure drawing from the artist's "Men Trapped in Ice" series.
The classic 80's black and white highrise apartment is beautifully complemented with multiple splashes of red from time to time.

Doesn't he get all envious about his friends apartment? Been years since I've seen it.
A bit off topic but is that really a modern chair? Its a strange beast, imo.

Yes Heath, he does become obsessed with his friend's apartment, which is in a better building or location or something like that. The funny thing is, the friend's apartment looks really plain. I guess that is the joke? 
I always thought the Barcelona was one of those "Icons of the mid century", generally speaking.
But I dont really like it that much.
The chair just gave me a chance to go all psycho. I almost made a "red meat" joke for Mark. But that would be off topic.

Why don't you like about it? Curious, if you don't mind indulging.
It  draws so much from the past, and is a little bit of a fraud, but I'm very conflicted about it and would appreciate another perspective. 

I usually enjoy reductive forms, so I should like the Barcelona more than I do. 
A little "cold" for me in feeling perhaps? Sort of  like a big leather bench. 
I want it to seem little bit more contoured and/or proportional to the human body, rather than just those two big slab-like curved planes. 
It makes me feel like an interruption.
I sit ON it, rather than IN it.
Also, there is something about it being a visual "one-liner". As if the designer was more concerned with saving the "look" of two arcs that form the seat and back, than he was with the function.
Even though I love the look, its hard for me to warm up to it.
These are just personal taste feelings about what I acknowledge to be a great chair.
So let me know if you find any of this to be useful in understanding your own dilemma about the Barcelona.
... I now recall another thread a while back... you were doing some work with this design? Refining the curves or improving them? And  I think that thread eventually led to  the "authenticity" thread too...

And the business cards. He gets incredibly jealous of the business cards on italian paper with raised font.Truly a person too overly obsessed with details.Sounds like us.Lol.

Thanks, the severity appeals to me, its more that so much of it is not modern, the scissor form,  the look of Berninis mattress, the horsehair in the original, the redundant buttons when using polyuerthane, Mies saying that it was intended as a throne, its appearance in every second rate estate office, the misplaced grandeur, the handwork involved in a so called exemplar of modernism, but that goes for many of the famous chairs. Its unrelenting presence in any context.
But on the other hand the beauty, quality, the work effort, its wide appeal. I'm pretty sure if you show a few people examples of the well recognised chairs who have no real interest in design the'yll stop at the barcelona. Its an example of what post modernism could have done. 
That chair, no, that was following wegners folding chair, which is still waiting for some attention, details, the devil is in them. 

The IT Crowd. I've spotted some plycraft here and there. It's also hilarious.

Girlfriends' Guide to Divorce - a Papa Bear chair, and some other things - I didn't watch for that long and I'm not that good at identification ...