Most watched shows in recent years.
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These are all indicative of a deep rooted sickness in Western society.
Ironically the first is probably the least objectionable, it shows how lack of social safety nets and opportunities pushes people to criminality but doesn't romanticize that life.
The second is straight up glorifying nihilistic misanthropy, it's making an entire generation think social apathy is cool. The third romanticizes one of the worst decades in modern history by portraying the 80s, the decade of Reaganite/Thatcherite neoliberalism, when entire societies were seized by a mass psychosis of selfishness and hyper-consumerism, through rose tinted nostalgia glasses. If someone wants to see what the 80s in America were actually like outside of the privilege bubble of suburbia they should watch John Carpenter's They Live instead.
I think the nostalgia is also in the 2nd tv series as well. The Addams Family was the original series from the 60s.
It's very common for reactionaries to seek to rewind the clock to a "better" time because the present has all these modernization problems. For the boomers, the 60s were better than today. For Gen X, maybe the 80s were better.
Both the 2nd and 3rd tv series are aimed at younger viewers or the young-at-heart: trying to convey the joy of youth.
I can understand 60s nostalgia, even though much is also idealized about that period it was in many ways the last time that there was some real hope for change for the better in the West. The youth wanted a radically different kind of society, there was a strong anti-war movement, decolonization struggles were happening across the world, you could argue things appeared to be on a positive trajectory. Where the 80s and 90s were decades of counter-revolution, the 60s were at least trying to be revolutionary, if in a somewhat naive, idealist way.
I think for boomer liberals, their memory is pretty hazy and the 60s was the end of racism. "We did it guys! Everyone can sit on the same bus seats."
"If you remember the '60s, you weren't there."
Their memory is entirely through rose-tinted glasses lmao. Tho I do think they have more nostalgia for the '50s when they were kids. Things were actually worse then, but Boomers don't know that because they were children.