Right, yes, my friend and I have touched on that a little bit too, that nostalgia has been the dominant mood in SF at least since the 90s, so that the nostalgia she feels is sort of a double-nostalgia: loss of a time when people were already lamenting the loss of another time. From a writing perspective this strikes me as solid gold, ahahaha. Very Proustian.
Your point about it also being nostalgia for a whiter time is interesting—I'd heard the opposite at least about, e.g., the Mission pricing out the previous, heavily Latinx residents in favor of white tech people? But I'm sure it varies by neighborhood & both can be true.
In any case, yeah, the series is enjoyable! We're now through the 5th episode, in which Mary Ann is successively congratulated by Mouse at having spent the night in Shawna's apartment, and then, later, consoled after they fight (as Mary Ann puts it, "We broke up.") Both of which I really enjoyed as per my comments above. :-D
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Date: 2019-06-29 04:46 pm (UTC)Your point about it also being nostalgia for a whiter time is interesting—I'd heard the opposite at least about, e.g., the Mission pricing out the previous, heavily Latinx residents in favor of white tech people? But I'm sure it varies by neighborhood & both can be true.
In any case, yeah, the series is enjoyable! We're now through the 5th episode, in which Mary Ann is successively congratulated by Mouse at having spent the night in Shawna's apartment, and then, later, consoled after they fight (as Mary Ann puts it, "We broke up.") Both of which I really enjoyed as per my comments above. :-D