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?
not good, so much as apt, but back when I was a lib I thought it was really neat how you could sense the cultural shift in the writing of The West Wing, especially during and after Isaac and Ishmael
I knew a guy on AIM two decades ago who blamed 9/11 for ER enshittifying, but I haven't watched that show since a rerun of the episode where (cw: gore)
spoiler
the guy falls off his roof and impales himself on a picket fence