This helped me solidify a lot of my thoughts about NYC for how often it shows up as the perfect haunting, gritty, dreamy, dystopian setting across so many films and shows. Thank you for sharing your perspective! My family is from upstate NY, which adds the duality of understanding for me that the state of NY is an entirely different world from the city of NY. But the most recent piece of media I saw used the setting of NYC in a real fascinating way was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Warriors” concept album.
This helped me solidify a lot of my thoughts about NYC for how often it shows up as the perfect haunting, gritty, dreamy, dystopian setting across so many films and shows. Thank you for sharing your perspective! My family is from upstate NY, which adds the duality of understanding for me that the state of NY is an entirely different world from the city of NY. But the most recent piece of media I saw used the setting of NYC in a real fascinating way was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s “Warriors” concept album.