They love to pretend to be the underdog, or the david rather than goliath.

Another one is stranger things season 1 vs season 3.

Season 1 was actually believable bc it had the bad guys as the US government kidnapping and experimenting on children to turn them into weapons and also harness the devil realm as a military weapon.

Season 3 tried to flip it into the evil soviet robotniks trying to invade the US via portals in 80s shopping malls.