Netflix sends scripts back and tells them what to include, and what not to, and everyone knows the vast scope of things that cannot be said or represented.
Someone ought to write an article explaining the 'de facto' code for every decade.
It blows my mind that Netflix, Hulut have so, many, titles - so much more content - and almost none of it is boundary pushing or exotic. Surely a few great series, but they were 'within safe range'.
The code is: "earn money/eyeballs". Like fashion, it is confined to variations on a theme which only shifts ever so gradually that you need to zoom out to a generation or two to witness any significant change. I couldn't tell you what changed in fashion in the last decade, but I can show you a 90ies look, an 80ies outfit, one from the seventies, something from the 1770s, etc. People want the same but different, and this imposes exactly such invisible 'codes' as you point out.
Netflix sends scripts back and tells them what to include, and what not to, and everyone knows the vast scope of things that cannot be said or represented.
Someone ought to write an article explaining the 'de facto' code for every decade.
It blows my mind that Netflix, Hulut have so, many, titles - so much more content - and almost none of it is boundary pushing or exotic. Surely a few great series, but they were 'within safe range'.