For example, I don’t think squid game would’ve captured the same audience if it didn’t come out during the pandemic

  • Dem Bosain@midwest.socialEnglish
    151·
    11 days ago

    I don’t think the 2nd season of Andor would have hit as hard in any other year but this one.

    • Overspark@feddit.nl
      3·
      11 days ago

      Yes and no. It came at a time when TV makers weren’t allowed to assume their viewers would watch every episode, in the right order. So while it does have a big overarching story, half the episodes are stupid filler episodes so people wouldn’t fall too far behind it they missed one or two. If it were made a couple of years later they could have gone hard in every episode.

  • Cyberflunk@lemmy.world
    3·
    11 days ago

    24 came out right after 9 11 and the original had the opening a plane crashing into a building (or something like that)

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    2·
    11 days ago

    I disagree about Squid Game. I didn’t see it until after the pandemic had become endemic, and the same is true of most of my friends. People still liked it.

  • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
    31·
    11 days ago

    Fallout.

    A video game adaption that isn’t hamstrung by idiots who don’t know anything about the source material, and funded by a morally bankrupt cash daddy company to ensure it has the budget it needs to get everything right.

    Also, a story based on America being shitty dictators and contributing to the nuclear apocalypse.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
    1·
    11 days ago

    The newer The Stand show, I guess. I mostly preferred the original, though.

  • IWW4@lemmy.zip
    1·
    8 days ago

    The Outerbanks. The first season was great escapism during the pandemic. It was basically a live action Scobby Doo, with pot and no Dog.

    The Tiger King: It was great escapism during the pandemic.

    The Mary Tyler Moore show was released when the world was shifting for women. the focus of the show was on her career.

    Along those same lines, All In The Family was released right after the upheavals of the 60s and people were taking a hard look at family, racial and cultural dynamics.

    The Big Bang Theory really capitalized on the whole Geek CUlture that was exploding in the late aughts.

    Not a TV Show, but a Movie.

    The China Syndrome was released as two weeks before the Three Mile Island Nuclear Accident happened. So people flocked to the theaters to see it.