Middlebrow “Blue Sky” USA Network shows ~2006-14 are an Age of Innocence preceding the Great Weirding. Psych (2006-14), White Collar (2009-14), Burn Notice (2007-13). Charming recession escapism. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Network# …"Characters_Welcome",_the_"blue_sky"_era_(2005–2016)
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Makes me sad to think the start of this era is already over a decade ago. Somehow it seems like a forgotten era. I think because they were not very meme-worthy shows. It was basic entertaining storytelling, without gif-able shots or iconic lines. Now TV/movies aim for the meme.
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I think it’s this kind of TV that best explains why I’m generally team normie/basic/mediocre. There’s a lightness of being that I prefer to the neuroticism of supposedly “better” TV and the non-normies it appeals to. Tropey self-awareness without heavy handed meta/irony tone
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The last hurrah of middlebrow middle class tv for a middle class on the brink of extinction
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I mourn this quiet, unheralded end of the last chapter of consensus reality. We moved so quickly to our current multiverse of alt TV realities we forgot to mark this. But we will rerun and remember.
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