In the Critic's Notebook from today's LA Times, Mary McNamara reflects on the television changing series thirtysomething and how the blurring of age has come to pass in American culture. A great piece.
"Thirtysomething" may have come into being just as TV was focusing its attention on the youth market, but it also helped that market widen to include just about everyone, 60 being the new puberty or whatever we're down to now.
Nowhere is that more apparent than on the blogosphere, which may owe more to "thirtysomething" than even "Seinfeld" does. With its reliance on endless self-revelation and catchy phraseology, the blogosphere dispenses with the shackles of narrative structure, and you don't even have to worry about getting Botox. Like "thirtysomething," we all love and hate it in equal measure, for pretty much the same reasons.
Watching "Julie & Julia," it wasn't hard to see the blogging Julie (Amy Adams) as a direct descendant of Melissa Steadmen.
If "thirtysomething" were made today, Michael and Elliot would have their own website, Melissa would work for Gawker and Hope would be a Mommy blogger. And they'd all be in their 40s or 50s. Not that it would matter." Sphere: Related Content
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