And it's not just NETFLIX that has them, I believe HULU also has them and this Podcast they advertise on the radio station I listen to, 104.9 The PATRIOT as well?
shareI think they are fed up with the abundance of school shooters in their own generations and are looking back with a sense of nostalgia to the serial killer era of Boomers and Gen X.
shareIt's interesting and it almost borders on obsession over it 🤔
shareI do notice that there seems to be a desire in entertainment to portray the recent past as primitive, scary and dangerous. We don't see many shows now about golden nostalgic happy moments of the past like we used to. It's all grim and ugly and sexist and racist and sad in the past as far as 2020s' Hollywood goes.
shareYeah, I happen to be from GENX.
I can remember it, the entire 1990s was one case after another. First one, as I recall, was Pamela Smart.
Then you had Dahmer, The Menendez brothers, OJ Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey.
Then in the early 2000s, Scott Peterson.
Was it better then? Probably not. But not primitive, scary and dangerous. People weren't as uptight, this is for sure, but you didn't have the technology advantages.
ANyway, why would GENZ be interested? No idea. It would be like me being interested in the events of my parents era (Watergate, Nixon resignation, Viet Nam, etc). One had no interest in any of that while young.
I am an early Gen Xer and in our 1980s' teens and early-20s, my buddies and I were fascinated with Viet Nam, thanks to movies like Apocalypse Now, Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, etc. We also listened exclusively to bands like The Who, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath instead of the New Wave and Hair Metal that was popular at the time.
shareHahha, well I can catch you on the music because we listened to the exact same bands (Zep, The Who, Pink Floyd, etc).
Indeed hair metal as well (primarily Van Halen)
But yeah, we had no interest in Nam, despite Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, and I think - Hamburger Hill? There may have been a few more as well (yeah, A N). Anyway, those events, or the other critical events of our parent's lives, never came up at all.
For me, all of that stuff - the major events of the 60s and 70s - became of heavy interest by the time I reached my 40s.
I think, in fact I know, none of my crew, none of the guys I grew up - one couldn't talk Viet Nam or Nixon or JFK with any of them - even today.
Fortunately I have my Father.
Ok, nice chatting with you - best wishes.
Why would Gen Z be interested?? In the event they had to commit a crime and refer back to past cases on how to go about beating it. What other reason could it be??
shareI don't know, it would seem those cases would be an inspiration not to commit a crime.
Pamela and The Menendez Brothers are still locked up - going on 35 years now.
Dahmer was brutally killed in prison.
OJ beat it, but his life was ruined.
The only ones that made out were The Ramseys. They got away with it and turned it into a cottage industry. John Ramsey still makes out, to this day, off his daughter's murder.
And Peterson, it may take awhile, but I think he'll fry (or be poisoned, whatever they do now) because he did exactly what he was accused of.
My guess is they haven't had anyone close to them die yet.
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