TV Tuesday: Should Auld Acquaintance

[yourlibrarian]

Are there shows that you’ve noticed have had a revival on social media or fan spaces in the last few years? Are there any you're glad to see coming back?

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[sixbeforelunch]

It's not a big revival or anything, but when I brought up that I'd started watching Murder She Wrote in my journal, I got a more enthusiastic response than I was expecting, and I know at least other DW friend who is actively watching episodes. Not bad for a show that's over 40 years old.

[yourlibrarian]

One show that came to mind with this question was Miami Vice, as I've seen several people around Dreamwidth posting about and creating things for it recently.

[feurioo]

I'm always amused when I see House posts on Tumblr. Don't think I would ever get fannish about it as I did back in the day, but I remember those days with fondness. (I genuinely cannot imagine a 2025 version of tongue-in-cheek platonic M/M life partnerships such as House/Wilson or Alan/Denny from Boston Legal.)

[yourlibrarian]

I've just watched the initial season of Brilliant Minds, and not only is the lead canonically gay, but he develops a relationship with another doctor in just a few episodes, and the season ends with a canonically lesbian pairing. Times have definitely changed. In years past his antagonist to lover path might have spawned a lot of fic and nothing else.

[rogueslayer452]

House M.D., Columbo, and M*A*S*H are a few older shows that have gotten a kind of resurgence in fandom spaces that surprised me, but in a pleasant kind of way. Sometimes it makes me wonder what sparked such an interest and why it suddenly blows up the way it did. Although I theorize that because so many newer shows now have less episodes and it takes too long for seasons to be released many are either revisiting or are just discovering older shows in the meantime and some just catch on somehow.

[yourlibrarian]

I was thinking the same thing. It's hard to marathon something that only has 10 episodes in all. This is my time of year to work on jigsaw puzzles with shows on in the background and I already went through 6 in the past week.