Unpopular opinion: Pawn Stars is actually a really good popular history show; the bits explaining and contextualizing the artifacts “customers” “bring in” do a good job of exploring history through material culture in a non-academic register; the other stuff is a human interest/conflict hook but it works; if you (correctly) compare it to PBS kids shows it’s got as much or more history per minute as 3-2-1 Contact had science, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego had geography, or Sesame Street had shapes/colors/numbers/letters