A concept I just made up: cultural history oxbow lakes
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Top shows minus Friends (so Seinfeld, Simpsons, Frazier), oxbow lake of 90s TV buzzfeednews.com/article/scaach
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Basic idea: a cultural slice that’s cut off from the main flow of continuously revised history, and remembered in a stable “classic” interpretation/reading that is mostly positive.
Embalmed or taxidermied cultural history.
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Further back, pre-TV.
Edwardian era: Wodehouse, Doyle
Victorian: Dickens
Typically oxbow lakes are what are tapped for reboots, retellings
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