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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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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Monk is the only show I watched during this time (of those named), mainly because Ms. Logic and I, despite chasing babies, had an overwhelming love of Big Night and Tony Shaloub.
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Monk precedes this era slightly and kinda inaugurated it but is slightly atypical I’d say
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You just made my case, that’s not meme-level memorable. Just a fun shot.
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