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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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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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I can't believe they tried to make McGyver be real in the same universe as Magnum P.I. How can you believe in a remake when it was also Selma & Patty's favorite TV show in some of the most widely viewed episodes of any prime time cartoon show of all time.