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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9588097" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think so. We've already had years and years of spy stuff and CIA spec ops and so on.That's already a thing. I can list the shows if you want - they've been steady/constant. I don't think we'll see either more or less of it. Also we don't have the jingoism of the early '00s which fuelled a lot of the shows back then. Xenophobia, ultra-nationalism and isolationism aren't the same thing.In particular, I don't think young people are terribly interested in that stuff, and I don't think they'll become more interested. And without young people - you can't be "big in pop culture".I think mystery box shows might make something of a comeback, but I dunno if in a big way.Pop culture is always hard to predict. I think it's easier to rule stuff out than positively rule things in. Only reason I rule spies and spec ops out is because it's not new and it's not engaging with young people. All the shows are Millennial and GenX-oriented.I think the big thing that has been missing for a while is sci-fi, so I wouldn't be surprised if that made a comeback generally.</blockquote>