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Strangest thing: Resurgence of TV programs set in '80s shows no sign of halting

posted 7 years ago by mikeyp (146)
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www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/08/27/strangest-thing-resurgence-tv-programs-set-80-s-shows-no-sign-halting/589318001/

Thoughts?

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[–] mikeyp (146) 7 years ago

Bloody annoying seems MovieChat have stopped my bloody links goin through-Just copy and paste it......https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2017/08/27/strangest-thing-resurgence-tv-programs-set-80-s-shows-no-sign-halting/589318001/

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[–] mikeyp (146) 7 years ago

Your welcome Dazed-Where you from, Haha you mean The Goldbergs you did a typo there :-)
So which ones have you seen advertised but not seen, One of my fav ones back on TV now for it's 4th and final season is:Halt + Catch Fire

[–] BourbonKing (5777) 7 years ago

What's interesting about the Duffer Bros is that they didn't "grow up" in the 80s (I think both were born in 1984) so it probably explains why the so-called nostalgia of the 80s looks rather commercially contrived than genuinely nostalgic to me as a viewer who would have been the same age as Steve Harrington.

[–] nauru-1 (160) 7 years ago

Music, too, seems to borrow a lot more from the 80s again as well.

In the case of Stranger Things, I would suggest its runaway success has in no small part to do with its ability to capture of a bit of that magic in those 80s films while using the benefits of the medium it is in. TV is more cinematic than ever stylistically, but it also offers an opportunity to have more intricate character development and multi-generational stories that 90 minutes simple cannot cover.

[–] DracTarashV2 (4493) 7 years ago

I'm all for it. Music aside, Stranger Things genuinely captures the feel and atmosphere of the 80's movies that inspired it, while at the same time it has the modern cinematic feel you get in most quality TV shows these days.

I wouldn't mind seeing more shows in that vein--with delivering something a bit different, of course.