I think some parallels can be drawn to how awful some media in the 70's was for quite a while. And then the golden age of the 80's and 90's were born out of that boring hellscape (along with many technical advancements).
Not that everything in the 70's sucked mind you, but a lot of TV shows and movies, especially from the earlier part of the decade, were just bloody terrible. A lot of awful trends that had low entertainment value, like blaxploitation, hippie centered flicks, some of the grungy urbanite flicks, and a wide range of preachy and "artsy" lefty films that parallels today's so-called "storytellers".
There were exceptions of course, especially in film. And I think the music scene was probably one of the positive highlights of that era (which continued into the 80's, only to be slowly drowned into irrelevancy by the 90's and early 2000's).
I think some parallels can be drawn to how awful some media in the 70's was for quite a while. And then the golden age of the 80's and 90's were born out of that boring hellscape (along with many technical advancements).
Not that everything in the 70's sucked mind you, but a lot of TV shows and movies, especially from the earlier part of the decade, were just bloody terrible. A lot of awful trends that had low entertainment value, like blaxploitation, hippie centered flicks, some of the grungy urbanite flicks, and a wide range of preachy and "artsy" lefty films that parallels today's so-called "storytellers".
There were exceptions of course, especially in film. And I think the music scene was probably one of the positive highlights of that era (which continued into the 80's, only to be slowly drowned into irrelevancy by the 90's and early 2000's).