dogmadealer

The show is set in 1983 and yet it inserts mid-2000s social sensibilities, wraps it in mid-90s pop culture, and ties a 1980s ribbon around it. I love the show but there’s a lot that just snaps you out of its pretense. A white homecoming dance DJ working turn tables with modern looking headphones around his neck? Didn’t happen in small town flyover country in the 80s. More like 2010. Black teenage boys dating rich white girls in an affluent, snow white Suburban Ohio enclave? And their parents were cool with it? Wouldn’t have happened. References to Chumba Wumba, 12 Monkeys, and a lesbian Ellen Degenres decades before she even became super famous much less came out of the closet? Cell phones and handheld personal camcorders? Even car cell phones were more of a 90s thing. But tiny camcorders like the one that appeared at the baby shower scene didn’t even exist until the late 2000s. It’s sloppy writing. Why not just set it in 2010? The 80s thing is just a sentimental gimmick.