For real. Super disappointed. Roseanne was the first show to really show what an actual American family was like besides maybe All In the Family (which would never get made now, oddly enough!)
Because all in the family was representative of a time when open racism and domestic violence were so common that they could be used as punch lines on a prime time tv show?
Yeah, but it’s not common enough anymore to be so in your face, it looks like what it is a tv show made back in the day, reflecting the cultural zeitgeist.
People are still struggling with the same issues now, but not to the same degree, we have made a lot of progress, and it just won’t hit the same.
I miss the x-files, but people who didn’t trust the government or thought their might be shady coverups were anti-American and so it lost its popular appeal
Thanks for explaining. In a loose way we’re saying something similar - All In the Family doesn’t work anymore as a show. I think it absolutely highlighted the friction between conservative parents and their more progressive kids, but that friction hasn’t been resolved and it’s rubbed open a nasty national wound. And ain’t nobody living thru an apocalypse gonna watch a show about the end of the world.
For real. Super disappointed. Roseanne was the first show to really show what an actual American family was like besides maybe All In the Family (which would never get made now, oddly enough!)
Because all in the family was representative of a time when open racism and domestic violence were so common that they could be used as punch lines on a prime time tv show?
Did you watch it? Archie is not portrayed as a role model 🙄
Yeah, but it’s not common enough anymore to be so in your face, it looks like what it is a tv show made back in the day, reflecting the cultural zeitgeist.
People are still struggling with the same issues now, but not to the same degree, we have made a lot of progress, and it just won’t hit the same.
I miss the x-files, but people who didn’t trust the government or thought their might be shady coverups were anti-American and so it lost its popular appeal
Thanks for explaining. In a loose way we’re saying something similar - All In the Family doesn’t work anymore as a show. I think it absolutely highlighted the friction between conservative parents and their more progressive kids, but that friction hasn’t been resolved and it’s rubbed open a nasty national wound. And ain’t nobody living thru an apocalypse gonna watch a show about the end of the world.
King of the hill was my generation’s version of that
Plus it was one of the few portrayals of a working class family and their struggles. Here’s an article about it