Prestige TV of 2018 looks a like the movies of the 1970s

The A.V. Club

Sam Esmail's Homecoming -- which has the same vibe as 1970s classics like All the President's Men, Taxi Driver and The Parallax View -- isn't the only show resembling 1970s cinema, says Noel Murray. Escape at Dannemora also pay homage to the legendary film decade, resembling the grime and grayness of movies like Dog Day Afternoon and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. "The cinema of the 1970s has lately become an apparently common inspiration for prestige TV dramas," says Murray. "Maybe it’s a coincidence, or maybe it’s just that writers, directors, and producers who grew up watching those movies see within them a visual grammar and storytelling approach that describes life in our own anxious, angry era."