And How important is it to know when a story was set in order to understand and appreciate that story fully?

I guess I would say it's really stinking important. in order to understand and appreciate that story fully.

I would say it's really stinking important.

If you had no context or understanding for Nazi Germany

and the 1930s and 1940s in that part of the world a show like

Schindler's list is going to lose some of its emotional punch. Let's go with

something lighter. I started this conversation with Schindler's list. Good Heaven's Whitman. Let's go with Stranger Things. Have you seen

Stranger Things on Netflix even if you haven't? Don't worry this is going to make sense to you.

Stranger Things feels like E.T. or the Goonies. It's this early 1980s setting where you've still got childlike wonder and kids are on bikes going around solving a mystery, but it's before the age of cynicism and the internet and everybody

knows everything.

And so there is still this sense of wonder and mystery and so the show really works, but if said it now I don't think it would work nearly as well and if you said it in

1740 in Puritan Massachusetts I don't think it would work very well either there.

It's just completely appropriate set in whatever it was, 1983 or 1984.

And part of the reason I think that show has caught on is that a lot of the people who are viewing it are just old enough to remember the setting. All of those little wrinkles and nuance and just remembering, oh, well, Ronald Reagan was in charge and oh we were

fighting against the Soviets and oh no gorbichov and also Burger King and

Coca-Cola and advertising in the 1984 Olympics and Mary Lou Retten like all of that stuff is still

rattling around in people's heads and even though no one might need to know

anything about Mary Lou Retten to properly appreciate stranger things.

There's this robust context that makes the story pop, and you don't have to make the story

ten times longer to explain all of that historical context is just sitting there because we're in close enough proximity in terms of time to remember a lot of those things.

And I know there are younger viewers who appreciate it as well and

that works fine but if you want to understand a story like that say a hundred years

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