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.
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.