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  1. The AtlanticSophie Gilbert3/4/2010 min
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    • jbuchana4 years ago

      Retro-modern would seem to be the term for the many backward-looking Netflix series, since:

      At least on Netflix, TV is leaning away from the modernist imperative to make it new and toward the postmodernist fog of reassuring familiarity, which keeps both the past and the present tantalizingly out of reach.