Which Nostalgia-Based Shows Kind Of Ruins Nostalgia?
List Rules
Vote up the shows the make good use of past, vote down the shows that use nostalgia as nothing more than a gimmick.
Networks know that the wistful longings we sometimes feel for yesteryear can be used to fuel their primetime schedule. Our fond childhood memories have been used as backdrops in assorted comedies and dramas all of over assorted streaming and cable services. If done corrected, a show can pay homage to a beloved time period, but if done wrong, it exploits it. Here are a few modern-day shows that use nostalgia as set dressing. Vote up the shows that use it in a way that honors the time period, and vote down the shows that have no idea what they are doing.
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- Top adman Don Draper seals the deal in the boardroom and bedroom but struggles with changing times.
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Young Sheldon
Sheldon Cooper embarks on his innocent, awkward and hopeful journey toward the man he will become. - The A/V and drama clubs at an Oregon high school join forces to make a movie in the 1990s.
- The rise of the porn industry in New York's Times Square from the early 1970s through the mid-1980s.
- 5The legends, icons and ferocious house mothers of New York's underground ball culture.
- In the 1980s, a child uses a video camera to document his crazy family's life.
