As a minority report on late 20th century pop culture, you got anything on how Stephen J. Cannell's A-Team and the Bellasario-verse and etc. tv shows as a bridge between mid century Men's Adventure Magazines and AAA shooty-man vidya?
That’s not a bad point, also Aaron Spelling as a bridge, a weirdly coherent transition from The Mod Squad as “working as part of the Establishment, but cool for a new generation” to Charlie’s Angels jiggle TV as “working together for a freelance independent version of the Establishment, braless”
In the 80s honestly 21 Jump Street and Miami Vice, you didn’t even need Spelling himself to do the “visually striking story of the borderline Establishment updated to track pop culture”
From there into the 90s as Baywatch in one direction (“working together for an untainted form of the Establishment \u2013 first responders! \u2013, in swimsuits”) and 90210 and thus the WB teen soaps in another (“you know who cares about the establishment, you just want sexy young people performing individuality”)
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