My question is, you're going to construct a bubble reality that works the way you want, I get it. Why the hell do you do it in New Jersey
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @ianbobmorris
It's supposed to be a classic whitebread suburban small town, where else would you set it
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The Midwest
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The old school shows that the 50s and 60s episodes were based on (primarily The Dick Van Dyke Show and Bewitched) both took place in Connecticut, so the husband could have a prestigious NYC job he commuted to
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Replying to @arthur_affect @FroyoBaggins and
Living in a quiet bedroom community near but not in the biggest city in the country used to be the American Dream
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God, it's just, having done that IRL, WHY but I mean, I guess that's also the show's point
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @arthur_affect and
That's the biggest mystery of the show as far as I'm concerned. Why does Wanda - a millennial raised in a war-torn Eastern European (possibly Soviet bloc) country - fantasize about living in a mid-century American sitcom?
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @BootlegGirl and
Like, I'm not saying there aren't some obvious answers that suggest themselves, but Wanda is such an underserved character that we have to read them into the show. And even then, doesn't that clash with her hatred of Stark (and the American capitalism he represents) in Ultron?
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Replying to @NussbaumAbigail @BootlegGirl and
I grew up with american television and I'm from Brazil, it's just cheaper for local channels to buy old shows and the likes instead of producing new stuff most of the time.
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Replying to @AshleyNatter @NussbaumAbigail and
Paul Bettany directly talked about this in an interview Saying that even though he grew up in London, his childhood was inundated with American TV - culture is our most important export All of these landmark shows from the 50s to the 80s, bundled together in daytime syndication
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For a lot of kids in other countries - possibly *especially* kids in other countries that don't have much of a media industry of their own - this fake version of America was hyperreal, more real than the world around them This context-free dream of how life is supposed to be
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Replying to @arthur_affect @AshleyNatter and
As a kid raised by TV I instantly got what they were going for here "TV land" as this world stripped of context - all the real world references too distant from you in time or space to really understand - with different decades smushed together into this weird stew
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Replying to @arthur_affect @NussbaumAbigail and
I meet people here in Brazil that has swalloed american TV since they were kids and have this utopic vision of the US. This guy I worked with in an reserach institute couldn't believe there were homeless people in the US or that minimun wage wouldn't be enough to buy a nice house
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