• Decoy321@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s important to understand cultural context in old shows. You don’t need to agree with them or find enjoyment in every single thing of a show.

    For example, The Honeymooners from the 50s openly joked about domestic violence (“pow, right in the kisser”), but the show was still pretty endearing overall.

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      1 year ago

      The cultural context for myself as a teenage boy was that Christina Applegate was in it.

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      1 year ago

      Sorry, best I can offer you is a flippant observation about decade old media perceived only through the myopic lens of progressive youth shielded from the realities of culture in America.