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Was binge watching old Mad Men episodes and was reflecting on how cutting edge they seemed when the show started. Then watch a couple current items available on Net Flicks. I start thinking about how different these shows would have been story boarded and scripted had they been aired on TV back when I was 18 y/o, 1972.

So, of the current TV lineup, consider how they would have been changed to fit the audience of 1972 or the year you were 18. Feel free to add your own selection from currently run TV shows.

GLOW = Glorious Ladies Of Wrestling: Set in the late 1979 or early 80s, premise is a wealthy trust fund heir decides to produce a women pro wrestling TV show. He hires a cocaine addled third tier director & a posse of underemployed & desperate actresses with little athletic experience. The scenes are comic, the characters backstories serious. Includes nudity, wardrobe malfunctions, explicit sex scenes, on camera breast feeding of infants, drug and alcohol abuse on camera, explicit language.

Orange is the New Black: Set currently; the main character is a blonde skinny middle class woman, educated but naive. She is sentenced to two years in a NY State prison for a one time violation of transporting a drug payoff ten years earlier. Story lines of each episode are set in the prison with frequent juxspositions of back story scenes set out side the prison. Scenes have strong comic development, but every story line has severe serious foundations. Strong character and story development of the leading and supporting cast. Includes nudity, homosexual & hetrosexual sex scenes, violence, explicit drug and alcohol abuse> A large portion of the female charters lack a male partner & most of the male characters are unsupportive or exploitive of women. Most of the women characters are dysfunctional, & unable to cope with normal life & problems let alone the severe legal and moral problems they are faced with.

Straight-8: Sci Fi premise. A group of eight individuals become linked telepathically. They live around globe in Korea, India, South Africa, Germany, London, Mexico & the US. Characters ages rare somewhere between mid twenties and early thirties. Story lines draw on the charters becoming aware of their new link, how to use it and help each other, and fighting a stock straight from central casting evil government type who wants to kill or exploit them. Some comedy & feel good schmaltz over ugly dramatic elements of fighting for survival in the early 21st Century. Includes explicit hetro and homosexual sex, transgender story lines, explicit drug and alcohol abuse, violence.

There three TV shows, have at it & include your own selections for discussions.
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