For the many 1970s-set TV shows, there is an allure in America’s decline

Paste Magazine

Recent TV series like The Deuce, Vinyl, I’m Dying Up Here, F Is for Family, The Get Down and the second season of Fargo show that we’re still struggling to make sense of the ’70s. “Perhaps,” says Matt Brennan, “this is the flavor of the Seventies that television is after, the sickly-sweet taste of nightmares and hangovers, the fear of falling that only ends when we hit the ground and wake up.”