Realizing it wasn’t just USA network. SyFy also had a few middlebrow innocence shows during the same period. Eureka (2006) and Warehouse 13 (2009-14) had the same sunny, cheery vibe. They were like campy X-files seem from the other side, from inside the secret deep state orgs.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1153915871569408001 …
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Imagine remaking all these shows now. They’d be impossibly dark and drenched in culture war bile: Psych Burn Notice White Collar Monk Royal Pains Eureka Warehouse 13 I can imagine great weirding versions of all of them. Notably USA Network switched gears with Mr. Robot.
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Psych would have chaos magick themes Monk would get embroiled in autism stuff White Collar would be about evil bankers and oligarchs Royal Pains would be about 1% healthcare amid Obamacare, drug prices, and opioid crisis Burn Notice would be about Snowden, Wikileaks
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This period is when I got obsessed with the concept of an interregnum. As Gramsci put it, "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear."
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