Then there is the gay stuff. Like hey we want gay characters because the people watching might be gay but let's not talk about the AIDS epidemic and societal attitudes towards LGBTQ people or anything. It's just a quirky personality trait that our main characters are all okay with. Just enough friction to have the gay characters there so the show has identity but no real criticism or exploration of the time. It's a very vapid show.
I didn't say make it about the AIDS epidemic. When I said "talk about" I don't mean the characters literally stop and have a conversation about it. I just mean the writers can put little stuff in. Mad Men is a good example of a show that does period cultural attitudes in a non-hamfisted way. If you want to point out that Mad Men is a high-class prestige drama and not some capeshit sci-fi schlock like ST, then consider Umbrella Academy S2. It's also made by Netflix and they did a whole plot about time travel where a black character goes back to the 60s. She joins a Civil Rights movement. They didn't avoid it.
Then there is the gay stuff. Like hey we want gay characters because the people watching might be gay but let's not talk about the AIDS epidemic and societal attitudes towards LGBTQ people or anything. It's just a quirky personality trait that our main characters are all okay with. Just enough friction to have the gay characters there so the show has identity but no real criticism or exploration of the time. It's a very vapid show.
Making Strangers Things about the AIDS epidemic would not make sense at all. Its a small town setting, how in the world would they ham fist it in?
I didn't say make it about the AIDS epidemic. When I said "talk about" I don't mean the characters literally stop and have a conversation about it. I just mean the writers can put little stuff in. Mad Men is a good example of a show that does period cultural attitudes in a non-hamfisted way. If you want to point out that Mad Men is a high-class prestige drama and not some capeshit sci-fi schlock like ST, then consider Umbrella Academy S2. It's also made by Netflix and they did a whole plot about time travel where a black character goes back to the 60s. She joins a Civil Rights movement. They didn't avoid it.
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