Decades only make sense in retrospect because being alive during one is a series of experiences, while looking back is a remembrance. Pinpointing ten-year trends is an inexact endeavor precisely because the arc of popular taste is only noticeable when it’s over or, as with the case with entertainment in the 2010s, never seems to end.
One only has to look at the top 20 highest-grossing films of the 2010s to see that our media climate is saturated with franchises, sequels, superheroes and all of those satisfying, big-budget movies that actually get butts in theater seats. It wasn’t that different in the 2000s, when seventeen of the top 20 films were sequels or book adaptations (or both, there’s a lot of Harry Potter on there), but even as that trend continues there has been one small shift that says a lot about how TV and movies shifted this decade — in the 2010s, entertainment began to look even further inward for its inspiration, choosing to ceaselessly expand upon that which was already done as opposed to moving on to other, new ideas. Read more...
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