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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Oct 2019
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      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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      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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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Oct 2019
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      When all this is over, the Obama era/recession will turn out to be more interesting than the great weirding. That’s when things got set up for world metamorphosis. The TV shows I like from that period are almost like eulogies for the good side of a world we knew was dying.

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 10 Oct 2019
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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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        1. Alex Bowles‏ @alexqgb 10 Oct 2019
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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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