From what I've seen, they've been following a pattern of the "20-year-gap," or even the "30-year-gap," which has been popular since the 70s on tv. It's appealing to the nostalgia adults at this time felt about their childhoods and the world they grew up in. So far, I've seen them do at least 2 sitcoms taking place in the 1990s. Nobody's really ready to have anything take place during the Millennium yet, but chances are very high they'll F that up too.
It's like, despite some of the people working on these tv sets being old enough to remember the times, the younger writers will do a crappy job of appealing to the kids and teens of today by grafting current society's trends and values on a society that didn't even know about that stuff in the past! And they get away with it because the producers are desperate for ratings. In the end, you get a tv show that is a terrible re-enactment of the time period, you piss off the people who were actually there, and the kids get bored and quit watching after a few seasons.
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Artisan (3464)
5 years ago
I don't think there is much that is unique or exciting about the 2000-2020 period to make a show about. Not a fun type show anyway. I think also because there are so many options now for viewing that didn't exist in the past if you wanted nostalgia you could just watch a show from that period and get it authentically.
Any show set in the past will have modern morality applied to it as well which would make it a borefest. Except for the English Life on Mars and Ashes to Ashes set in the 70's and 80's they had great fun with the lack of PC in those periods.
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pioneergrrrl (2412)
4 years ago
I doubt they are going to do a sitcom set during the pandemic---very hard to ignore nationwide unemployment.
Happy Days was set in Wisconsin but they mostly ignored joe mccarthy who had been long dead by the time Happy Days hit the air. officer kirk was the stand-in who's compared to McCarthy (very unflatteringly btw). It's one episode where a comparison between the two is mentioned and it's very clear that Kirk is not a likeable character. Kirk did not last long on the series.
McCarthy hated Hollywood and had a black list of supposed communists. Howard Cunningham was a small business owner but he seemed moderate--did not like nuclear war, invited African Americans into his home, he wanted Ritchie to go to college and learn things.
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