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Sounds rather like grandpa TV than dad TV

It's good TV but Spielberg and Hanks are aiming at sexagenarians as their primary audience

Dad TV is imho Stranger Things, Andor, True Detective, Ozark. Something more nerdy and/or gritty than the black and white "good old simple times" stories

If the average dad age when baby is born is 30 in USA and you are "dadding" for 20 years then average dad is sth like 40

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I think the point here is that 'dads' like to watch stories about competent men they can admire and look up to, who invariably tend to be older/wiser than them. I think the situation isn't helped that there isn't a lot of prestige quality content about men their age - that tends to fall into the 'dad tv' genre (ie, Yellowstone, Billions), not 'Prestige Dad tv'.

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