TIL that the reboots of Hawaii 5-0 (2010), MacGyver (2016), and Magnum P. I (2018) are part of the same fictional universe called Lenkov-verse and that is also connected to NCIS/JAG universe called Bellisario-verse. 🤔
All 3 shows are pretty bad.
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I’ll forgive some pretty bad plotting and character development for extended universes if they do good universe building but here it’s really bad and there’s not much universe building.
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It’s like a mechanical and soulless procedural version of USA’s blue sky tv, which wasn’t really a shared universe but had a shared mood and much better shows (psych, monk, white collar, burn notice, royal pains)
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Middlebrow mainstream TV is my least popular tweeting topic.
Well, tough. You’re going to hear about my TV watching until morale improves.
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Blue sky tv was the best tv of the golden age. Not all that shitty overproduced and overacted premium mediocre stuff on HBO. fite me.
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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. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Netwo"Characters_Welcome",_the_"blue_sky"_era_(2005–2016)
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Lenkov-verse badly misses the mood of the times. Hawaii 5-0 is at least forgivable since it started 2011, but the other 2 are set in Trump era and kinda tone-deaf to Great Weirding mood. Notably, USA shifted gears smartly with Mr. Robot. Dark and emo instead of sunny and simple.
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