SPOILERS for Star Trek Enterprise potentially
I was noticing it was tough for me to get into shows that started after the 2000s, and talking to someone I mused about how it must be because of 9/11. I was watching Enterprise at the time, on the season just before 2001, and sure enough, the episodes after 9/11 had a complete shift in tone, the show becoming basically 24, sci-fi War on Terror immediately. It's like a parody of 'if Starfleet had to make the hard choices to make America safe from space Al Qaeda' or something. Overall the show is better than I was expecting though, still got me hooked on the trekness.
It was clear there was a cultural shift after 9/11, especially in the mainstream US media. It was interesting to be able to see it so distinctly in a show that went from the pre- to post- era. Does anyone else have any good examples of that happening in shows that spanned that shift?
Sopranos literally got darker after 9/11, cinematography became all shadows
and they removed the twin towers from the intro for the second half of the show
Im watching for the first time ever, and I think I'm about to hit post 9/11 eps soon.
His therapist called out his racist remark against middle eastern people and I was shocked because I couldn't see that ever happening in tv post 9/11
He was gay, Osama Bin Laden?