u/Pretend-Pangolin-406

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With how hot crime shows tend to be, you would think there'd be a lineup of 1920s shows ready to binge, but in reality there's next to nothing. The era was practically the golden age of gangsters, especially in America, and we have like two serious shows about it and that's all.

Which brings me to my next point, Boardwalk Empire is like the only 20s show that FEELS like the 20s. I sat on Peaky Blinders for a while and finally gave it a shot. I thought it was fun but the characters started to feel like time travelers from the future with how socially dominant the women were, among other stuff. The soundtrack was anachronistic too, it was weird hearing booming rock music in a show about 1920s England. These little things do kind of add up over time and take away from the experience.

To me, Boardwalk Empire was a glimpse into the era and no one has the heart to make more like it. It's literally one of a kind.

I'm about 80% finished with The Knick, which is a compelling early 1900s medical drama but it leans into social tensions way too much to the point where it actually hurt my enjoyment of the show and I feel like dropping it.

Writers who depict pre-1970s America have this bad habit of making White people into these powder kegs of racism just waiting to explode and lynch the first Black person who so much as looks at them the wrong way. The problem with this is whenever a Black character is on-screen they're just constantly bombarded with toxic racist banter from every White person in the vicinity. It's like, WE GET IT. RACISM IS A THING.

There's often a similar dynamic between women and men in historical shows where anytime a woman says or does anything, a man will slide in to patronize them. And if a woman is married, they're forced into it and the husband is constantly reminding/coercing them about having babies (because no woman ever actually had children of their own free will back then apparently).

Deadwood is the perfect example of a show that does NOT do this. We see plenty of moments of these tensions but it's never a constant stream of it. Women and minorities in the show are not defined by how they deal with sexism/racism but rather things that give them an actual identity.

In S9E3 they use the song from the Season 1 Finale when Rick, Morty and Summer freeze time and engage in wholesome shenanigans.

It helps tie the bow on a feel-good episode intentionally placed after a depressing one.

I notice a few vendors still ship their products to New Jersey. I'm seeing discussions as recent as a month ago saying things like it's still okay to purchase online until the federal ban coming in November, but others are saying the opposite.

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Is this something that the vendor should be more concerned with than the buyer, or is the buyer also at risk of getting their door kicked down for buying half-potent weed, assuming the shipment goes through?

I noticed there isn't really an abundance of background music going on. Too many shows, especially modern ones, are way too cinematic and bombastic in production style. Everything is so Hollywooded up.

Deadwood feels almost like I'm watching a play instead. Any recommendations of shows of the same genre like crime/drama/historical (present day is fine too) that has that same non-overproduced vibe? Bonus points if it was made before the 2020 sloppification of tv writing. My favorite TV era is 90s to early 2010s