Retro is Poison

Good critique of the surge of TV shows reinforcing and banking on outdated gender roles; widen the lense a bit for a jab in the face of an obsession that's rapidly choking itself into meaninglessness.

Retro is an addiction that rages out of control in a recession; the more we drink it in — the more times we remake “Charlie’s Angels” or wish for a return of stewardesses and other clear-cut visual cues of gender rigidity — the less able we are to move forward and come up with our own ideas.